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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