[opencms-dev] Projects vs sites & rights management

[Chirouze Olivier]

Hi Michael and thanks again for your answer.

The concept of "sites" is quite well explained indeed. (I was able to
add sites, affect them to some groups, set a default site, etc).

I do see what "offline" and "online" mean, but I can't really understand
in which case you would create sub-projects and what they are aimed for.

Could someone explain or point to some documentation module about new
projects?

Thanks

Olivier 

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> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Michael Emmerich
> Sent: 14 April 2008 16:18
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> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Projects vs sites & rights management
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Online / Offline, this is easy:
> Normally you have an OpenCms system running on the server 
> that delivers 
> your website. Therefore, all access to the system will also read the 
> content of the online project.
> When you log in the OpenCms workplace, you can switch to the 
> different 
> projects, by default you have "Online" and "Offline".
> To edit some content, you have to be in the "Offline" 
> project. You can 
> do your changes, check if your changes "look good" in your 
> templates and 
> so on. As long as you are doing so, the visitor of your 
> website will not 
> see your changes as you have made them to the "Offline" 
> project and he 
> is always accesing the "Online" project. Therefore you have 
> to publish 
> the content to get it online. Publishing can only be done if you have 
> the role of a projectmanager, so you can have users which are able to 
> edit the content and tohose to review the changes and put it online.
> 
> 
> About the sites:
> One OpenCms installation can be used to serve multiple sites. Each of 
> the folders in the /sites folder has the content for a single 
> website. 
> Please take a look at the documentation module about 
> multisite which is 
> part of your OpenCms installation.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
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