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Hi, I’m new to EE and trying to find out the answer to the following question:

Can I make relationships between members and weblog-entries, other than author relations?

an example:
I am (re)creating a site for a research collaboration. All 58 members of the groups are:

(1. part of 3 different institutions)
2. part of 23 different research projects
3. (co)publishers of x different articles

the first one i can ignore, since there are only three institutions
but the second and the third one are weblog entries.

The nice part of a relational database is the ability to link all this information, but I do not seem to be able to relate the members to the weblogs or vice versa. I need real members rather than a weblog called members, since I want them to update their own (public accessible information, something the member plugin offers. (Although I’m still not sure how to extract that information in a similar easy way as i can extract information from weblog entries, to include it in the website rather than the standard member_list, but that should be possible, shouldn’t it?)

The only “solution” seems to create a fake-relationship by making a weblog called persons with entries for each member and a custom field related_member_id similar to their true member_id which I have to fill in by hand for all individual members. A lot of extra work and a shame given the power and possibilities of relational databases.

So if I can create a relation between members and weblog-entries (and v.v.), this would bring members on the same level as the flexible EE engine, opening up a lot of new possibilities. The question is, is it possible?

regards, Maarten

“I’m still not sure how to extract that information in a similar easy way as i can extract information from weblog entries”

try this

Why don’t you want to set the members to be the author of their weblog entry? Then they can edit them.

The nice part of a relational database is the ability to link all this information, but I do not seem to be able to relate the members to the weblogs or vice versa

User Guide Member Groups
One can esily relate members to weblogs by creating groups and adding them to a group, see also:
User Guide - member Groups edit. Permissions in EE work a lot like a network.

This area will show a list of all the weblogs in the system. You may assign a weblog or combinations of weblogs to the group. Only weblog(s) that are assigned to the group are included in the Weblog Posting and Editing Privileges above.

Creating numerous weblogs and member groups, you can fine tune who has access to what, editing and publishing as well as simplifying the cp for them. A member group can be assinged to a single weblog, several, or all. Also group permissions can be set so they can edit their own only or those by others.
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