I have a site for an organisation with common information.
The organisation has also 4 local units. For each local unit there is a part of the site with information about it.
The information of the local units is almost structured the same. Same kind of content and layout.
There's only one unit with a separate site, but they share the same database. In my database there's one table with events, one with contact info etc...
The site is now structured as www.orgname.tld and www.orgname.tld/unit1 ... /unit4
I wrote this site about 8 years ago in php, but now I want to bring them to a cms, and thought Drupal can handle this. I'm quite new to Drupal (used a lot Joomla in the past). Depending on the url, I get the right content out of the database.
I'm thinking of doing something with taxonomy and give every content item a tag/label with his unitname.
But an extra feature I would like, is that from every unit a person can login an manage the content for his unit, but can't touch the common content or content from an other unit.
So another approach I'm thinking is to use the multi site feature, with a big advantage that I can change layout for each unit (for example other header), but that isn't a requirement, except for one unit. But in this case I can't share content types and content.