Is it possible to navigate several child portals with the same account?

For example, if I had the site www.example.com, and the child portals called www.example.com/alabama and www.example.com/alaska, is there a setting to where a member of the Alabama portal can visit the Alaska site and stay logged in, or more accurately that the visitor is a member of the example website and the child portals are simply an extension of the example website?

If not, then is there any suggestion as to what would be the best set up for this situation?  All portals would look the same but have different information based on which child portal the visitor is at.

Thank much,

Loren

Thanks, J.

I would think that what I need is to modify the log in so that it creates the new user against all the portals, but I am just starting DDN and haven't really used ASP since back around 2004, so I'm a little rusty on the whole website programming thing in general.

More description of what I'm looking for would be a child portal that has the same pages as every other child portal, but covering a different subject.  For example, www.entertainment.com/books would have the same menus, modules, pages, etc., as www.entertainment.com/movies and www.entertainment.com/music, such as each having a blog, a forum, an events calendar, etc., but that is specific to the subject of that child portal and having a different administrator.  However, a visitor would be able to register to the site just once, no matter which child portal they are in, and navigate throughout all the child portals with the same account.

It seems off hand that child portals the correct way to go for this set up, with the exception of the log in issue, but is there something different I should be looking at?  Should I instead be looking at creating different "sub-admin" types of roles for the books, movies, and music sites?  If so, then can I set the blogs and forums to show just the ones relevant to the correct subject?

Loren

AFAIK, portal groups are still on the agenda for DNN 6, but there is no date given, when this feature will be available. Portal groups will share roles and user base, but AFAIK there are no plans to share any content as well. Regading to your use case, I would consider it more easy to administrate, if you use a single portal with special url rewriting, providing the category as querystring parameter which is retrieved by your costom modules to display appropriate content.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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