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Hi Guys

I’ve successfully built a web site using EE but now one of my clients wants me to build them an Intranet. What do you think?

Key things to implement are:

- members with different access rights. I can do this with members and member groups
- document storage. This needs to allow multi level directories that users can upload files to. Any EE add-ons out there that may help ?
- member posting of articles. Members with the right permissions can post their own articles…is the only way to do this through the control panel login or is there a way I can do it as part of the intranet site ?

Any thoughts or suggestions much appreciated

Thanks

Tim

#1: You have - just remember that one member == one group.

#2: Sounds like you need Assets from Pixel & Tonic. I haven’t used it yet but the native file manager maps uploads to one directory, and users can’t see directories/folders.

#3: You could either strip down the CP to just show what they need or build a Stand Alone Edit form using Safecracker.

Thank you - very very useful

I had a look at Assets. Interesting. The one thing left puzzling me is the best way to display a hierachy of documents, e.g.

Country
—-> State
———-> Region
—————-> City
———————> (files to download)

Assets seems to be a control panel module, although you can upload via SAEF. Do you think it could handle this kind of structure ?

Dunno (see note about never having used it..😉

Dunno (see note about never having used it..😉

lol, yes, the question wasn’t aimed at you directly 😊

I haven’t used Assets either, but EE natively allows you to assign categories to files, which I think should allow for your desired output.

I haven’t used Assets either, but EE natively allows you to assign categories to files, which I think should allow for your desired output.

Good point! I’ve looked at that (new) feature a few times in hopes of seeing a use case for it and I think you may have found it…;)