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** I was told to move this topic to the SALES thread. I hope it helps ***

1. I am working on creating a forum based website. Within one website, is it possible to have multiple (over 50) individual complete forums?

2. In essence, I want one user to be able to go to the website, and see specific (complete) forums. Can I have a user have given access to certain forums? I mean, I want them to be able to see all forums, but have quick links to designated forums that they entered on a form?

3. Can you have a user status? If I go to one forum, I want a user to see who else is online and specifically looking at that forum.

Please let me know if this is possible. If you have any questions about what I am asking, please let me know.

Thank you very much.

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Posted: 03 September 2010 09:54 PM     [ Report ]  [ Ignore ]  [ # 1 ] 
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I can answer #1 for you. And the answer is yes.
All individual forums (called “boards” in EE) are separate. Not sure if you can create different url’s (read: domain) for each of them.

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Saroshv
Posted: 03 September 2010 10:27 PM     [ # 2 ] 
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Thank you for your quick response.

What I would need is to have one complete forum at example.com/a/b/c another one at example.com/a/b/d etc.

Each forum would have to have the qualities of one COMPLETE forum, just like http://ellislab.com/forums

Also, can I customize titles and create new subforums with most recent replies etc?

What about my other 2 questions?

Thank you!

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Saroshv
Posted: 04 September 2010 05:04 PM     [ # 3 ] 
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Anyone?

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handyman
Posted: 05 September 2010 07:54 PM     [ Report ]  [ Ignore ]  [ # 5 ] 
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I think it will be difficult to do what you want - you can have as many separate forum “rooms” as you like, and they can even be grouped, but I think the membership is common across all of them. You would therefore see who is logged into ANY of the forums.

It might be possible to do what you want with multisite manager- using different URLS. Ask the sale team in the sales thread.

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Anyone?

Saroshv—I’m not official tech support, but you may want to give it another day or two. It’s a holiday weekend in the United States—many offices are closed.

Alright, thank you!

I’ll be patient =]

I am working on creating a forum based website. Within one website, is it possible to have multiple (over 50) individual complete forums?

2. In essence, I want one user to be able to go to the website, and see specific (complete) forums. Can I have a user have given access to certain forums? I mean, I want them to be able to see all forums, but have quick links to designated forums that they entered on a form?

3. Can you have a user status? If I go to one forum, I want a user to see who else is online and specifically looking at that forum.

 

Yes, you would use Forum Boards to create entire forum ecosystems.

Yes, you can control access to different forum boards by member group.

The user status would need to be custom built, it is not an included feature.

Please post back if you have any other questions.

Please see my earlier post: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/166545/

Please read all the posts. This person told me that EE was not the right tool to use here.

Thanks!

Mike Boyink is one of our Community Partners and runs the Train-ee classroom sessions.  I would trust his assessment of your project.

1. So say I have this group ‘a.’ But I want each member of group ‘a’ to have its own section of the website. Is this possible? Furthermore, I want other members, say of group ‘b,’ to be able to join a ““group”” that a member of ‘a’ has created. If they do, then they will have access to this area of the website that a member from group ‘a’ created.

2. Instead of creating multiple roles, is there any way to have members be assigned to a group, then any member can sign up for another ‘group’ (I don’t know if ‘group’ is the correct term that I am talking about. I want each member to be part of about seven distinct groups. I think it would be impossible to create over a trillion groups) - Let me know if I should clarify this idea.

 

There is no such thing as groups like this in EE - member groups in EE are mostly for permissions, not for users to sign up and get together in the way that Facebook groups might work.

Ultimately I think that Mike is right - that EE may not be the best fit for your project, based on your requirements above.

Thank you for your response.

I know this is not related to EE, but do you have an ideas / suggestions as to what might help for this project?

Thanks

Unfortunately not. If you want to throw around some ideas, brainstorm as it were, may I suggest starting a new thread in the CodeShare Corner?

Can you move this thread there?

Thanks!

Certainly. Done.