[opencms-dev] Projects vs sites & rights management

[Chirouze Olivier]

Hi all!

This will be my first post to the list but I might be back for more
technical questions later on ;-)

I am planning to use OpenCms for the following need:
- only managing "pure static content" (will be used more as a document
managing system: html, pdfs, images)
- group of users will need to manage one or many "sites".
- I would like to allow these users to have rights only on their sites
(a site manager is allowed for upload, delete, create... And publish,
but only on his site(s)).

I have been impressed by OpenCms user, groups, and organizational unit
features... And I think I understand them now ;-)

I have started to play with permissions and groups on folders and I
think I will be able to manage to have some users allowed on some
directories quite easily. But as far as I understood, "publish" will
always publish all subdirectories... Or maybe not with subprojects?

My question is: what exactly is a "project" and a "site" in OpenCms? The
next question is: how would you advice me to use projects and sites to
achieve the above goal?

I don't really understand the concept of offline / online project, and
/sites file tree.

Hope I was clear... I am not saying there is no clear doc on the
subject... But I didn't find it!

Thanks in advance!

Olivier