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

[Fran Fabrizio]

By separate database, do you mean separate instance of drupal?  Or does 
it use all the same PHP/CSS/themes/etc... install but just have a diff. 
mysql db?

Metzler, David wrote:
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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