[opencms-dev] Is OpenCMS the right tool for this?

[Tim Howland]

You could definitely accomplish most of this with openCMS.

However, the URL mapping may take some sophistication, and would likely be external to the app. If you are using apache, then a combination of mod_rewrite and mod_proxy would take care of it. A brute force way to do it would be to install static pages that did a simple redirect to the appropriate place within the opencms tree.

If you are using LDAP to manage accounts over there, you may need to do some research on tracking down an LDAP connector- IIRC there is a commercial add-on somewhere that does this. That would simplify authentication issues for a large faculty or set of departments.

But the core functionality you need- structured templates, access-control over content editing, and WYSIWYG editing - is definitely there. 

HTH,

Tim 

-----Original Message-----
From: Serge Plüss [mailto:serge.a.pluess at Dartmouth.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:28 AM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Is OpenCMS the right tool for this?

Hi

just downloaded and finally got OpenCMS 6.0 alpha 1 installed. After playing a little bit with the tools I am not so sure if it is the right tool for what we are trying to achieve.

  +------------------------------------+
  | Header     Navigation Menu         |
  +--------+---------------------------+
  |        |                           |
  | Navbar |     Main pages            |
  |  with  |                           |
  | Dept.  |     Department pages      |
  | List   |                           |
  |        |     ...                   |
  +--------+---------------------------+

The main site layout consist of a Logo and navigation menu on the top and a navigation menu down the left. The left menu will include links to individual departments.
Clicking on one of the department links will bring up that departments home page in the main page area.

Each department has one person designated to be responsible for their departments content.

Each of these department user should only have access to their content and be able to edit it easily (preferably WYSIWYG) but not have access to either navigation bars/menus.

If possible each departments site should be easily reachable with links like:

http://www.mainsite.com/department1 ... etc.

The last place I worked they aquired Vignette for this task but here we don't have that kind of budget.

Can this be achieved with OpenCMS or do you have better/easier solutions that could achieve this?

Thank you in advance

Serge


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