I've been thinking about an online idea for about 3-4 years now and can't get it out of my head so I've decided to act upon it and see if I can get it working. Currently working a POC and design layout which I plan to tender for development.
The main part of the portal and most important component involves user sub-sites. I am unsure how to tackle the process for a user to create a sub-site during the registration process and/or what path to take.
Let's say the main site is www.abc.net - the user would then register a sub-site based on the credentials they input. E.g. user1.abc.net, mysite.abc.net or joeblog.abc.net... whatever they want and so forth. No SEO required - The site templates are fairly basic and the sub-sites will be accessible through the main site. So the process to be:
User logs onto main site and registers
During registration, user enters details including sub-site name they want
Select the template they want - basically different colour schemes. Functionality to be the same for all templates
their site is created
when the user is logged on they get directed to their sub-site
Ability to edit their sub-site - add content and add extra pages, change details…. etc
General users (registered or anonymous) would be able to browse and search content to the sub-sites via the main site.
Each sub-site to be independent from each other - no content sharing. Basically they are separate websites hosted as sub-sites but need they need some type of editing available like a CMS. Not sure if a shared CMS is possible but the owner has to be able to modify content to their own sub-site.
So my question are…
Do I try and use a Drupal/Wordpress/Joomla CMS with multisite functionality?
Do I try a solution where I have a collection of simple sites that I use for sub-sites, each to have their own database and some type of CMS or WYSIWYG for editing? Is separate CMS even possible for each Sub-site?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
As far as I know this would not be possible as the CMS would not have access to your server where the sub-domain is created.
It would be possible to offer something similer using Joomla as it offers the option to apply custom styles (templates) to different pages. You would however have to adopt the following URL convention www.yourdomain.com/userselectedtext.
You can then have a page where users register with your site and the cms creates their page.
User permissions in joomla can be set so only the owner of a particular page can view or edit it.
You can check out this source: http://www.drupalgardens.com/. Google what platform is it based on. Maybe you'll find some information. Read also about this extension: http://www.joomplace.com/administration-extensions/multisitescontrol.html. It's for Joomla sites. I used this component for multisites content management. Maybe it will help you too.
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I'm trying to add an iframe into the form for viewing accounts that will display all the invoices that are connected to that account. I've read this MSDN page about accessing specific forms through a URL, which I can achieve, but copying the URL generated into an iframe I have created on my form produces an error message.
I'd like to know whether what I'm trying to accomplish is possible and if so, how I should format the URL so that only the invoices connected to the user account being opened will be displayed. I'll add more details later if I can.
I think what you actually want to do is add a sub-grid. This is different from an iFrame, an iFrame generally contains web resources, or links to pages on the web. A sub-grid specifically exists to show related records - e.g. to show the left hand relationships links on the body of the form.
I think this article should show you what to do.
Edit - based on Jacks comment:
So Crm can't handle this situation quite so easily with out of the box features. But you do have a couple of options. I dont think any of these are perfect solutions, so I'll let you choose.
A sub-grid effectively just runs some FetchXml, you can change this FetchXml with JavaScript, so you could alter the view to return the records not directly related. Green Bible has an example, though this doesnt look like its supported.
Use a report in an iFrame.
Use a plugin, I havnt done this myself, but a colleague told me it was possible to stick a plugin on the retrieve message and basically change the query or results which is used by the view.
Create a second relationship between the invoice and the account. Then whenever you link an invoice to an account, also populate this new relationship (a workflow will do) with the account, and whenever an invoice linked to a contact is created, populate the new relationship with the parent account of the contact (again a workflow will do). Then just base your sub-grid on this new relationship. This approach isnt the cleanest but its probably the quickest and easiest to implement.
I'm a developer who has taken over a Joomla website, which was creatied using SEBLOD. The website is a listings website, which has over 300 listings on.
The purpose of the website is to get enquiries through the listsings.
Currently, the queries are attached to a button - which opens your email program and sends the email. This is not ideal.
Is there a way to create and attach a generic enquiry box or form to each listing, and include the name of the listing in this form when its sent?
Is there a way to create a form that can be attached on the frontend of the website page intead of
the "Request a quote" button.
To be candid, seblod is an impressive Joomla app, but I'm afraid you might not be able to get useful answers than on their forum, I've been using it now for over a year and I'm just coming to terms with some of its functionality. Visit the forums and you should be able to find a good answer from the devs there. Its an expansive suite so it might give some unique challenges.
I would like to create an event signup form using Google Docs. The user is able to select which session they would like to attend, but I need to somehow limit the number of people that can register for each session.
I can not find a way to do this using the standard form creator GUI, however I think it might be possible to do using Google Apps Script. I would need to be able to customize the form that is loaded to remove sessions that are already full based on a query to the underlying spreadsheet.
Is this possible, or should I look into other Web Form surveys?
The Google Apps Script Template site has some good templates to help you do something like this. In particular, the Course Registration template sounds like what you should use.
I'm struggling to find much documentation on Dynamics CRM 2011 and have a problem. I'm not looking for code more a pointer as to the correct method of approach (workflow, dialog, custom HTML web resource etc)
I basically want something that does the following:
Go to Contact list
Select some contacts
Ribbon action opens a box that allows me
to select a custom role from a drop down list (source is a dynamics
entity)
Select a radio box for either add or remove role
Save the changes, this will add or remove a role from the contact and also send an email to that contact
I know how to get a list of selected recordIDs but I am not sure if I should be calling a dialog or a custom HTML page with JS.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
This may not work at all for your scenario but it is worth thinking out of the box sometimes. This would only work if you have a small number of roles and the roles don't change that often.
Add checkboxes on the Contact, one for each role. Build workflows that fire on update of those checkboxes that send your emails. Now users can quickly edit lots of Contact Roles by using the Multi-Edit feature.
The benefit of this approach is it is a "no code" solution and it is very easy for the User since it uses out-of-the-box functionality. The downside is that you need to maintain those checkboxes. But it may be easier than writing a bunch of web resources and javascript!
I have assembled a list of bookmarks on the subject here. I hope the link works.
Gareth Tucker's site is specially interesting.
In the end the solution was to create a Ribbon item that accepted the selected Guids from the contact list.
Then read those in from a web resource (Silverlight) which called into the sdk and created / removed the records accordingly
I need a CMS that allow me to interact with people anonymousely... The site will present some video, some picture... but i need to :
Let ANYBODY without registering send video, post and picture. those media will fall into a queue for approval by real persont that manage the site, and send that to the right category !
So if you know plugin or extension for joomla, drupal or wordpress that do that or another cms that will allow the flexibility to do that...
Dont tell me it's dangerous to let anybody upload photo, i can get porn, but it will be filter by human, and registering under false name do the same thing
Sure, that's easily enough done in Drupal.
Set up standard drupal. Get CCK, and the video modules necessary for how you want to handle video - filefield/imagefield is probably pretty close to what you need.
Set up the content types you want the users to be able to create. Give the anonymous user role the create permissions for the types you want anonymous users to use. Unset the published check box in the content type forms, so that new nodes will not be published.
I would then snag a copy of the workflow module, which will allow you to define states for the nodes to be in (such as 'waiting for review', 'approved', or 'rejected') and set up roles for your moderator(s) to review the content and approve. Workflow's a pretty easy module to get working.
And there you go - anyone can create a new node, but the node won't be seen by visitors to the site until after it's been approved by a moderator.
A final thought - including a module like spam or mollom might work with preventing new nodes that are only spam from bothering your moderators. Captcha might be helpful too, although that does get bypassed at times.