Before you start

Is there an articles module where users can write articles and submit them to different categories that i set up? then users can search for articles.

i did see an articles module, but the description doesn't seem to be anything similar to what i've described.

Hi and thanks for reading. I've searched and found a lot of multisite posts but I couldn't find anything that covered what I'm trying to do.

I'm setting up a site which will provide rugby clubs with their own web sites inside a sub domain. eg

club1.mydomain.com
club2.mydomain.com etc etc

I posted earlier about my need to create an intranet/extranet combo, where internal users have wide access to content, and external/client users are in effect "jailed" into their own site, with their own forum and file sharing areas.

It sounds like multiple sites (not multiple installs) could solve my problem. But I need to understand something.

I've searched for questions along this line, and found a few hints, but nothing too specific.

I need to create both an intranet and an extranet. The intranet includes forums, blogs, a filesharing area, and collaborative looks like the books and perhaps a wiki. All users marked as employees (whatever that turns out to mean) should be able to access all areas of the intranet.

The extranet is divided conceptually into "mini-sites", one per client. Each mini-site includes a single forum or perhaps forum area specific to that client. Likewise a filesharing area. NO ONE may view a client area without being specifically granted access to that client area.

When a client logs in, it appears to them as though they have their own site, with their own filesharing and forum areas.

A user may be added to many client areas.

This creates functionality vaguely similar to our customized Bugzilla install, in which a user must be explicitly added to a project in order to see it, and a user sees and can search only on projects to which they have access.

Can Drupal do this out of the box? If not, can it do so with reasonable customization, or the addition of modules, or both? "Reasonable" means that upgrading is not so painful we avoid it :-)

I don't care how many "sites" I end up with, as long as creating a new client site and populating it with a few users is a five-minute process or so.

Hello,

I have read many of the previous posts about Drupal forums and how it should be more similar to phpbb or vbulletin. Is the development team working on this? Seems like a lot of people would like to have this, including me.

I know that there are one or two workarounds, but they aren't perfect and seem to have problems with every Drupal upgrade. I would love to install Drupal for it's other features, but without a nice forum I will have to find something else.

Hi There -

Quick question: with Drupal 4.7 out of the box, can more than 1 person login using the same account at the same time from different IPs? It's a question of session handling I believe.

We are wondering if only 1 person can login using an account at a time, or if that login can be distributed and more than 1 IP login to gain access (using the same account) at the SAME TIME.

Thanks,
Cameron