Jaci,
Jaci Chesnes wrote:
The problem isn't the number of users it's the ability to archive past
issues. Every month the current issue will have to be taken down put
into an archive and a new issue with using the same templates will have
to be created The look will be the same put the links will have to link
to totally knew version of each page.
There are many ways this can be done. It really depends on what content types you choose to implement your content with.
For instance there will always be a section called departments that has letters to the editor, Technology Update, etc. But the content for each of these will be new. Because the current version can't be just written over I need to generate basically another version of the entire site each month with blank pages for each of those various section while dumping the current version into some type of archive. Is there a way to do this?
An approach out of the box might be to:
a. set up a categories
- one for each issue of the mag
- one for each section of the mag
b. write content and categorise with the right category
c. use a publishing rule in each section to display the relevant content
d. to update the site simply change the categories the publishing rule points at
You could easily achieve this with News objects and the news publishing rule. OR you could build your own customisations to finesse this in some way.
The second problem is that we have about 7 - 10 magazines that we would need to do this for which means I need the ability to build an individual site for each one of the magazines. Can FarCry run multiple sites with multiple logins off of one install or do you need to run a separate install for each site?
Well you could have a different branch for each mag. If each mag hangs off a separate domain I'd be inclined to go for a separate farcry instance per mag. If you are not sharing content between the mags I'd definitely go for a separate instance per mag.
re: federated login. You can easily set up a shared user directory so that you only need one set of credentials to login to all the different magazines even if they are distinct FarCry instances.
Hope that helps,
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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