[support] Organic Groups - Subgroups

[Luke]

subdomains might be a way to go here.

I probably wouldn't use OG for a schools project (of which I have a couple 
coming up).
Of course, different schools have different requirements, and different 
levels of technical capabilities; and may need to take the site in 
different directions, so OG from what I know of it, doesn't seem like the 
way here for the master mapping system.

Just my .02.

Luke
  On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Sohodojo Jim 
wrote:

> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>
>> I don't know a lot about OGs. Is there a way to create subgroups in
>> Drupal 6?
>>
>> My customers are schools. I want to make an OG for each school, so all
>> the students are registered with their school, and I want to allow
>> teachers to create sub-groups to represent school classes. I figure that
>> this would make it easier for teachers (and for me) to manage all the
>> students (e.g. to check their work).
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
>>
>
> 	I don't know your specific business/organization requirements,
> however it sounds like you might be at the wrong level of "modeling
> granularity" when mapping your customer-schools to Organic Groups. Perhaps a
> multi-site configuration would be more appropriate, each school with its own
> site.
>
> 	If needed there are a ways to share content among multi-sites if
> that is required while each site/school has its own completely extensible
> platform on which to grow while remaining within the
> best-practices/recommendation context of a shared/managed common codebase.
>
> 	As to OG/subgroups as a mapping for school/class, you've boxed
> yourself into an OG-based solution (which is a constraint as much as it is a
> potential solution). There are MANY ways that you can model/map a
> part-subpart system in Drupal. OG-subgroups is just one somewhat obvious
> one. But I am sure that folks on this list will contribute many other ideas.
>
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