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class=135533316-10112006>There will be a requirement for the CMS to tie into the
OpenLDAP server that we will be putting in place in the new hardware. We
need to keep our system manageable.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=135533316-10112006>Drupal users need to be fed into / out of this
system. Roles need to be pulled from this system, but should be
maintained through a secure interface. I don't know much about OG,
but it seems that something as flexible as this may not be appropriate
unless we're careful about locking it down.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=135533316-10112006>We're also going to need to integrate mediawiki with
LDAP. There appears to be good support for this:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=135533316-10112006>Jason</SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kanhaiya kale<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday,
November 10, 2006 08:27<BR><B>To:</B> dev@webcommittee.osgeo.org;
jitendra<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Web Comm] Drupal modules and it's
functionalities<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi,<BR>In drupal, i have seen some modules and it's functionality. I
think these modules with minor changes in it will fulfill our requirement.
Modules are listed below,<BR>
<UL>
<LI>Organic Group (og module) : <BR>
<UL>
<LI>Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. <BR>
<LI>Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group page where
subscribers can post into.
<LI>Membership to groups may be open, moderated, or invitation only.
<LI>Any page,forum,poll etc. created by a user of a group 'A' can/cannot be
access by a users of group 'B'.
<LI>Any post created by a user of group 'A' can/cannot give access to users
of group 'B'.
<LI><BR></LI></UL>
<LI>og block visibility module : <BR>
<UL>
<LI>This module allows you to specify that a block should be visible only
within selected groups.
<LI>This can be used for many purposes, from providing each organic group
with its own navigation menu, to allowing a group to highlight its own
featured content, etc.
<LI><BR></LI></UL>
<LI>og forum module : <BR>
<UL>
<LI>Upon creating an og group, it creates a forum container for that group,
with a single sub-forum.
<LI>A record is also placed in og_term to tie the organic group with the
forum container's term ID.
<LI>When viewing groups, only forum discussions for that group are
displayed.
<LI>The og_term table could be useful for other applications of tying groups
to taxonomy as well.
<LI><BR></LI></UL>
<LI>og mandatory group module :
<UL>
<LI>An add-on for the Organic Groups module that makes one group mandatory
for all new users.
<LI>Choose one group that all new users will be put into. You can chose
either an open or a closed group. Any new user will be auto-approved as
member of the group. The group manager(s) of groups that a new user joins
will get an automatic e-mail notice.
<LI>This module also allows the admin to require a new user to join at
least one group during registration by requiring them to choose one of the
groups listed in the registration form. This group is in addition to any
mandatory group. This feature is disabled by default, is independent
of whether a mandatory group is selected, and has no effect if there are no
groups listed in the registration form.
<LI><BR></LI></UL>
<LI>og moderate module :
<UL>
<LI>Moderate public posts from organic groups module. Moderated posts will
be hidden from anonymous visitors. Moderation needs to be done by node
administrators or another module.
<LI><BR></LI></UL>
<LI>og roles :
<UL>
<LI>This module allows you to, for each group type, specify a list of roles
that group administrators are allowed to assign. In the subscriber list
(og/users/<node id>), a 'configure member roles' tab will appear if
both the group type is allowed to configure roles and the current user is an
admin for the group.
<LI>For example, if you created a "trusted user" role, and a new node type
called "official group," you could allow administrators of only official
groups to add selected other group members of to the "trusted user" role.
<LI><BR></LI></UL></LI></UL>Regards,<BR>-- <BR>kanhaiya kale (KK) </BODY></HTML>