Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Parttioning phpgroupware for support of several groups fo users on disjoint databases

[Chris Weiss]

you can have distinct groups in phpgw and one user is able to be in more than 
one group.

Olivier Berger (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>Hi.
>
>First my apologies if this topic has already been discussed. I have
>looked for information about it but, it's quite hard to find the right
>search terms for such a question.
>
>So here is it.
>
>We're using PhpGroupware to develop PicoLibre (www.picolibre.org), which
>is somehow a way to provide an easy to use equivalent of
>sourceforge/savannah for research or education institutes.
>
>The architectural principle of such a platform is that there are
>projects which are very much independant, hosted on the same platform.
>Some of the developers may belong to different development projects, but
>data relating to the different projects are confined in each project's
>view.
>For instance, the todo-list of every project is distinct (same for bugs,
>etc...).
>
>
>PhpGroupware is not structured (correct me if I'm wrong) in such a way.
>As I understand it, it's mainly devised for a single group of users (for
>instance a department in a company, or say a free software project), who
>are using the instance of phpgroupware. If need is for another group,
>there would probably be another whole instance of phpgroupware needed.
>
>
>If trying to map the first model on to the second one, actually, that's
>what we did in PicoLibre, this means that almost every elements in the
>database need to have a new relation to the "project" partitioning key,
>which means rewriting most of the database code if we intend to reuse
>some of PhpGroupware applications.
>
>
>I wonder if you've already discussed this issue, and potentially thought
>about evolution, for instance for some kind of "virtual host" or
>"metaproject" partitionning scheme of the whole data handled by  a
>single instance of phpgroupware ?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help/thoughts on this idea...
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>P.S.: btw, picolibre was finalist of the free software trophies... and
>of course phpgroupware deserves many thanks since much of the
>infrastructure of picolibre relies on phpgw. Thanks guys. More details
>on http://www.picolibre.org/fstrophy2003/index.en.html
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