Hi,
I am new to Drupal. I just installed 4.7 (Fantastico auto install)
Now.... I want to use this as collaboration platform for multiple communities. For example, we have communities in all States. So, there will be a global portal that aggregates important information (news, events, special articles, forum posts, etc.) from individual community portals. Preferably I would like to have a single database to store all user data.
That means, if a user signs up in any portal, the information will be captured in a single location.
I guess I can summarize the features I want to implement using Drupal. Please let me know if I can do this; if so, how? any examples tutorials?
1. Multiple Drupal Sites with a single installation or multiple installations connected seamlessly to support a Global Portal, State level portals, City level Portal, and community level portals. Fundamental unit is Community portal. All others higher level portals show aggregate info from their sub portals.
2. Can we have custom fields added to initial site signup / Registration form?
3. Can we allow other users to own and maintain content (with suitable work flow - approval system)?
Can we have page level control or block level control?
4. Can we have web forms to collect different types of info? Can we make these just one record per user (like extended profile where each user can have multiple such profiles, like resume, volunteering skills, professional skills, etc.) How easy it is to create new forms?