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Hello,

I am working on a Greek university portal project and I need some advice.

Up to now we have evaluated 3 CMS, Plone, Drupal, Joomla by setting up demo sites. Joomla proved to be inappropriate for a multilingual site with no synchronized content so we abandoned it.

Plone is easy configurable and it’s the first choice at the moment although it’s a bit buggy. Plus we have a fairly experience in Plone.

Nobody among the members of the team had used Drupal in the past. In the first tests with Drupal we liked its functionality and architecture and we believe that it’s possible to build a more sophisticated solution in Drupal rather than Plone.

Up to know we have tested Drupal 5.7 with CCK, Views, Panels and Localizer. We are facing an issue related to the way we will establish node relationships. Let me present a case:

2 Content types:
- Staff Member Profile (Multilingual)
- Research Paper (No Multilingual)

The way the relationship between a Research Paper and Staff Member Profiles was implemented was by inserting a node reference CCK field in the Research Paper content type. Building the appropriate views and panels we created pages of member profiles with their related papers and everything worked normally.

Hello all, thanks in advance for any help..
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Hello!

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marc

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I have Joomla site set up at www.mydomain.com (replace mydomain.com with real domain!!)

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