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wolmar
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21 Jan 2008 4:40 PM  
Hi. I have a little problem, or.. I thought I had a little problem but it seems to be growing. =(

It's like this. I work for a large company with many diffrent departments. Each department needs it's own startpage. Or maby not.. The deal is that every department needs to be able to have some uniqe stuff, but some things (like news on the right, some menu items etc.) should be common to all. And there should be a dropdownmenu or something that marks the currently choosen department. If you have the correct rights set you can switch to a diffrent department using this dropdownlist.

First i thought i could just set viewing rights on the solpartmenupages.. but i don't think that will be enough.. I also need to change logo/banner etc for diffrent departments. Also it would make it a bitch to admin! There are like 30 departments with atleast 5 uniqe pages each...

So. New idea! Why not childportals? Each department with its own portal. I meen one must be able to share content between childportals, right? Well. No such luck. =( Dosn't seem to work quite that way.. (PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong!). And I have no idea how to have the same login for all childportals. Don't think this is possible either.

Which leads me to my current idea. I have the adress: www.somesite.com when you go there you are faced with one big login page that I write myself in c#.. I check my own database which tells me the department the user belongs to, also the departments this user has a right to see, and then stores this in Session. Then it redirects them to the correct child portal. This is a standard .net nuke portal only I have inserted some code in the Default.aspx that checks if the user has a right to see this page and if not, redirects them back to the login-page. I'll also populate the dropdownlist in some way from the sessionstuff.. Then I'll have to solve the shared content with RSS module or iFrames.. somehow.

One (of many) drawbacks with this is that a user that logs in using my own little login won't actually log in to any of the dotnetnuke sits.. Is there a way I can login a certain user through code? If not this is not a big deal (just ugly and annoying).. The ones who will admin the sites will just have to login again..

Anyone.. Please give me some input! I know there must be a better way to accomplish what I want! That is .. if anyone who read this far understands what i need... =)
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