Filesharing between roles/departments

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1/7/2010 6:12:07 PM
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Filesharing between roles/departments

Hi,

I am fairly new to MojoPortal and I would like to implement the following scenario but I am not quite sure how to go about it. I
have multiple departments and would like use the mojoPortal file sharing feature for each respective department. However, each
department can only share files with persons in the same department and each person can only see files for the department they
belong to. A person can also belong to multiple departments.

This is how I thought I would try to implement it :

1. I have created a role that would represent a certain department.

2. Each person will be assigned a role that would correspond to the department they belong to.

3. Each department would have a file sharing page created for them with the relevant role (department) assigned in the security tab under page settings.


The above solution works, however there are 20 departments and if I log on as administrator all 20 filesharing tabs would show!
This is would still be fine, however, filesharing is only one of the about 5 different "filtered" features I would like to implement
and I am concerned that it is going to be almost impossible to manage with that amount of tabs created and the idea .

I can implement my own module to take care of this, I am just curious to know if there is an out of the box functionality that
can handle concenpts of departments?

Many thanks in advance for any advise on this.

 

 

 

 

1/10/2010 11:40:55 AM
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Re: Filesharing between roles/departments

Rather than a different page for each department containing each feature why not use the same page but apply the permissions to the features directly.

We have a page containing a number of file share modules. By applying the security to the feature we ensure that users can access the files they are supposed to.

It also means that by using the same page, elements that are consistent through all departments such as instructions, help, how to, can be shared.


Hope this helps

Ben

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