It seems that either way, you're going to need to do coding of most of the display functions. I understood the suggestion to be the following: extend all of the basic types with a hidden field "department" that is populated from the LDAP directory. Then you would have to code the main display functions (objectAdmin, library, etc.) to always include "where department IS #session.dmProfile.department#" in the queries. That way, you could keep things under one install. However, perhaps one other aspect to think about is database size and speed. With the amount of things in the refObjects table (just 60 depts * 300+ pdfs = 18,000 in just pdfs) then you add in all the rest of objects that need to be stored (profiles, logs, etc) and you get a whopping database I would think. Just wanted to point that out though!
I haven't done anything of this size, so good luck! Tomek On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Jeff Coughlin <j...@jeffcoughlin.com>wrote: > > AJ, > > > could using a category for each department help? > > Then you can filter a departments news / events / files / images / ... > > Yup. I made that suggestion in Option A. However, with 600+ items per > department listing all of them (items from all department) gets very > confusing - FarCry doesn't allow you to filter your list items by > category. > > > Do they use LDAP? > > You would want it so when they log in you know what department they > > are in so you can use it for setting the category for filtering > > departmentCategory EQ SESSION.dmProfile.department > > > Yes they are using LDAP. However, I'm not sure that can help me at > all with my dilemma (since I can use it with either Option A or B). > Or am I missing something? > > -- > Jeff Coughlin > Web Application Developer > http://jeffcoughlin.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to farcry-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to farcry-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
