blogs and forum for each company/developer

[madhans]

Can we have a dedicated forum and blog for each company/developer.

[anilsr · Accepted solution]

@Madhan Sadasivam ,

Dedicated blogs are simple to do, Just create a custom view in Drupal that displays blog content filtered by user id.

I am not sure what do you mean dedicated forums ! You mean forum topics posted by a particular user ? Above concept can be applied to filter forum topics posted by the user & display the page using views module.

It should be pretty straight forward with little bit of customization. It should not be more than 8 - 16 hours of work. Need Drupal Expertise to implement same.

[sudheendras]

Can't we use the Taxonomy or Content access modules to support this?

[anilsr]

@sudheendra1 , Yes, We might end up using taxonomy & content access if restriction has to be applied & posts have to be categorized. If it's just listing & no need to enforce access restriction then taxonomy & views module will solve the use case. If access restrictions have to be enforced then OG module might help .

[madhans]

Each company can contain multiple developers and the blog and forum must contain the posts from the developers of the same company.

[anilsr]

Yes, It's doable. You can just use the taxonomy to tag blog posts by company & use views to filter the list. Would you like to do access restriction also ?

[madhans]

Yes access restriction to only allow a company developers to access the content from their company is needed. Does this work for forums as well

[anilsr]

@Madhan Sadasivam , Simple way to solve this issue is to create a role for each company assign same to user & auto add content access to the role when they create content. So that same posts will be visible whey they navigate to blogs / forums. If you don't want to go role based approach OG module is a good place to start. If you are not satisfied with both custom solution has to be built.