[support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to user/group

[Metzler, David]

The way we are using this is that we actually create a separate database
for each site section.  The look and feel is controlled centrally as all
sites have the same "theme" applied, but each site has its own separate
database.  Then you establish different roles for each site, but all are
using the same "code base".   

You can also set a similar thing up in the same database, but you need
to do the multi-site install.  I find that to be more complicated than
it's worth, but others find it quite valuable. 

David Metzler
The Evergreen State College

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:45 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to
user/group


We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now there
is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the site. 
When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or role
permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that section) a set
of pages without giving them permission to edit all pages or to publish
pages outside of that area? Is there a module that is set up to handle
this sort of "sandbox" model?

Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our
faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the graduate
program. In our current site, this translates to all pages in the
/graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and can only
publish new content to that folder. Another person is in charge of the
undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is in charge of the
continuing education program (/conted), and so on.

How best to model this in Drupal?  Is this something that Drupal is
well-suited to handle?

Thanks!


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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at
Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653
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