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3/25/2010 10:09 PM
 

I ran across this unanswered thread and was wondering the same thing:

 

http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/4/postid/8516/view/topic/Default.aspx

It sounds like much of this can be done with some pretty lengthy permissions....  but how do you setup 20 different deparments without them all being visible to the administrator and making the main menu bar 20x longer than it should be....

 

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Hi. I have a little problem, or.. I thought I had a little problem but it seems to be growing. =(

It's like this. I work for a large company with many diffrent departments. Each department needs it's own startpage. Or maby not.. The deal is that every department needs to be able to have some uniqe stuff, but some things (like news on the right, some menu items etc.) should be common to all. And there should be a dropdownmenu or something that marks the currently choosen department. If you have the correct rights set you can switch to a diffrent department using this dropdownlist.

First i thought i could just set viewing rights on the solpartmenupages.. but i don't think that will be enough.. I also need to change logo/banner etc for diffrent departments. Also it would make it a bitch to admin! There are like 30 departments with atleast 5 uniqe pages each...

So. New idea! Why not childportals? Each department with its own portal. I meen one must be able to share content between childportals, right? Well. No such luck. =( Dosn't seem to work quite that way.. (PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong!). And I have no idea how to have the same login for all childportals. Don't think this is possible either.

Which leads me to my current idea. I have the adress: www.somesite.com when you go there you are faced with one big login page that I write myself in c#.. I check my own database which tells me the department the user belongs to, also the departments this user has a right to see, and then stores this in Session. Then it redirects them to the correct child portal. This is a standard .net nuke portal only I have inserted some code in the Default.aspx that checks if the user has a right to see this page and if not, redirects them back to the login-page. I'll also populate the dropdownlist in some way from the sessionstuff.. Then I'll have to solve the shared content with RSS module or iFrames.. somehow.

One (of many) drawbacks with this is that a user that logs in using my own little login won't actually log in to any of the dotnetnuke sits.. Is there a way I can login a certain user through code? If not this is not a big deal (just ugly and annoying).. The ones who will admin the sites will just have to login again..

Anyone.. Please give me some input! I know there must be a better way to accomplish what I want! That is .. if anyone who read this far understands what i need... =)

 
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3/26/2010 6:47 AM
 

Hi, there is quite a few posts with similar questions, here is what I would do:

I would create a child portals for all the departments, I would use DNNMasters.MPUS.Xtreme to share user database bewteen the portals (you can use it to switch between the portals as well), the content that has to be available for all departments I would place on the main parent portal and than bring it in via RSS or even via Iframe. If there is a content (for example forum or blog) that needs to be displayed for all just set it up on the main portal and than redirect the links as required.  If you use child portals this should still be ok for SEO and the site urls would look as a part of one site anyway.

Hope this helps

 

 
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4/2/2010 5:03 PM
 

Thanks --
I looked into bringing in content with RSS, and content in with IFRAME but it's just less than ideal.  i..e it only brings in the first few lines.

 

I think the most valuable enhancement would be adding a page setting for pages in parent portals that says "Display in All Child Portals" and a module setting for all modules added within Parent Portals that says "Display in All Child Portals"

 

Also, for modules like Forum, adding it to the parent portal and clicking "Display in All Child Portals" in the module settings should enable users from all portals to participate in the forum.

 

 

Logged in Gemini. http://support.dotnetnuke.com/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=12064&PROJID=2

 

 
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4/3/2010 5:29 AM
 
sharing content between portals will require a different feature, which is still on the roadmap for one of the next versions: Portal Groups.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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5/6/2010 1:15 AM
 
Sebastian,

Will portal groups help link users to multiple portals without a 3rd party module?

Any idea on the timeline for portal groups?

Thanks

Chad
 
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