I suppose this may or may not work for your particular situation, it
seems to be a switch from what you have implemented (or was planning on
implementing)
Build it all as one application. And build a security scheme into the
database, with users and groups (tables). Turn off (or on) navigational
items based on the user sign in. In separate directories, use the
application.cfm to check whether or not the user is in a group that has
access to this directory.
You can even take this a step further and create one discussion group
code-base, and turn on and off all of the messages based on the user's
groups. Take this scenario:
I log in to your application.
I click the discussion room link.
I'm presented with a list of sections that I have access to (I.E.
section 1, section 2, section 3, through section 11)
Clicking the section will give me a list of all discussions in that topic.
It should be easy enough to intersect a group table with a section
table, and intersect the section table with discussion messages.
Would that work? From a functional standpoint, it's a
solution. However, politics may trash it. I can imagine people being
offended that their discussion group is listed on the same page as another
section's discussion group. (Corporate America--or wherever--gotta love it)
It sounds like a flawed reason to allow anonymous posting, kind of like
a solution to avoid the problem, not solve it. Can 'you' dymanically' name
an application using the CFAPPLICATION tag? I've never even thought to try
it before. Maybe you could use the same discussion group code, but
automatically log people in by passing the application name as a variable
into the template. (I.E. you'll have access to all the previous session /
application / client variables)
At 12:00 AM 05/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Sorta quasi off-topic here...
>
>I've got an interesting situation. I'm working on a site that has a lot of
>politics involved. They want a message board for each of 11 different
>sections that is totally separated but they all use the same header and
>footer file combination. They also want something that looks like CF Forum
>2000 or SMB, with the twist that they want "anonymous posting" capabilities
>added in (where they do not have to log in to post). The reason for the
>twist is the fact that there are going to be 11 different applications
>running and they do not share username and passwords... if each message
>board requires a log-in and a visitor has access to 5 boards and wants to
>post on all 5, then they would have to log in 11 times (one for the main
>site, then once again to gain access to the board to read message threads
>and one more time to post a thread). This is way too cumbersome.
>
>Does anyone know of a better concept of doing this. Right now what I'm
>pondering is 11 installations of the same message board and going through
>changing the application name to prevent session variable conflicts. It is
>absolutely vital that all 11 areas have their own message boards. They do
>not want any sharing of message topics/threads/posts across boards.
>
>TIA!
>Hatton Humphrey
>
>
>
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