Nothing obviously wrong with your model. Anyway, if we see we may be able to say more.
On Sep 1, 1:55 am, annet <annet.verm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last week someone asked me if I could build a web app for a node in a > network. Over the past couple of days I gave this question some > thought, and I came up with a design of which I don't know if its > doable in web2py. > > The node has 250+ members. At the moment there is a master/detail > function which enables the user to search for a member, and when the > user clicks a member his details are presented in a business card > format. Instead of this business card the node would like to offer its > members a web site. > > This website should enable the members to communicate who they are, > what they do, how they work together, news and events, where they are > etc. Since there is a lot of similarity in what the members > communicate, and for instance news and events should be accessible > from the index application, I thought of developing one application > for all 250+ members. > > In my design I defined a database table 'member' to which the tables > containing the content for the different menu items point. Then in the > controller design I defined a function for every menu item. Similarly > I defined views. > > Since not all members will have the same menu items, I thought of > defining a table 'menu' in which the members could set menu items to > true or false, and defining a function menu which generates the menu. > Here's where I start worrying about the feasibility of my design. > > When the user clicks a member, I thought of setting the member id in > session.member_id and passing this member_id around as an argument in > every url. In every function I would check if the member id in the > session is the same as the member id in the url. If not the function > should redirect to a function that sets the member id in the session > to the one in the url and call the menu function to generate the menu > corresponding with the member id in the url. > > I hope some of you will give my idea some thought and comment on its > feasibility and the things I overlooked and make it a bad idea. Any > comment is very much appreciated. > > Kind regards, > > Annet.
