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

[Fran Fabrizio]

Interesting, I had come across og yesterday but did not make the 
connection that it could be applicable here.  I will play with it today 
and see what it can do, thanks.

Larry Garfield wrote:
> This sounds like an ideal job for the organic groups module ("og" to its 
> friends <g>).  
> 
> http://drupal.org/project/og
> 
> The description is mostly about users setting up special interest groups, but 
> it's perfectly effective for having administrators for only specific subsets 
> of a site (where each subset corresponds to an og).
> 
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:44, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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