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Teddy
#1 Posted : Tuesday, 2 September 2008 10:18:04 AM(UTC)
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Are there any facilities available for allowing user "portals" with their own themes and such? The basic premise is to denote certain galleries as "portal sites" which could be themed and managed as a separate entity while pointing at the same content database and MembershipProvider.

Does anything like that already exist within the framework? If not, is there any interest in developing such a feature set?
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Roger Martin
#2 Posted : Tuesday, 2 September 2008 10:46:29 AM(UTC)
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I believe that feature roughly exists in the concept of galleries. Each installation of the web application is associated with a particular gallery ID (default is "1"). Each gallery can share a common database and set of users, but is independently managed.

For example, one can set up one gallery at http://www.yoursite.com/robert/ and another at http://www.yoursite.com/susan/. Each has a different gallery ID but uses the same back-end database, including users. It is also possible to use the same database but have a different set of users for each gallery.

See the sections Working with Galleries and Membership Configuration in the Administrator's Guide for more info.
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Teddy
#3 Posted : Tuesday, 2 September 2008 1:03:28 PM(UTC)
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Does that effectively require one "installation" per gallery as far as the front end is concerned? I can make that work for my purposes, but it would be pretty slick if it were possible to provide that kind of customization OOB.

A practical example (though a good deal more overblown than what I have in mind) would be a typical SharePoint installation which allows the creation of independent, but centrally managed Site Collections.
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Roger Martin
#4 Posted : Wednesday, 3 September 2008 1:54:14 AM(UTC)
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Yes, although you don't need to go through the install wizard each time. The Admin Guide has step-by-step instructions in the Working With Galleries section.
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Teddy
#5 Posted : Wednesday, 3 September 2008 2:54:44 AM(UTC)
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Thanks Roger!


If I get some free time here I may work up a prototype of the more comprehensive portaling capabilities that I have in mind and shoot it your way. In the mean time, I'm good-to-go for my current needs.
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