[geeklog-devel] RE: Geeklog 2 etc.

[Tony Bibbs]

Yeah, that concept isn't supported but it is an interesting idea worth 
pondering for GL2.

--Tony

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Rappaport, Evan (MTVi) wrote:

> 
> The problem with that is that I would have to create an enclosing group for every combination of sub groups.
> 
> Eg. 
> 
> team1
> team2
> team3
> team4
> 
> group1 = team1,team2
> group2 = team1,team3
> group3 = team1,team4
> group4 = team2,team3
> etc ....
> 
> If there were a way to just check off which groups it should go to instead of a drop down box, it would eliminate this problem.
> 
> Evan Rappaport
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: Rappaport, Evan (MTVi)
> Subject: RE: Geeklog 2 etc.
> 
> 
> Create a GL group for each group in question.  Then when you post a story, 
> assign the group for the story to the group you want, give them read 
> access and for members and anons turn off the read flag.
> 
> Then only the people belonging to the group you assigned will see the 
> story.
> 
> It's that easy,
> 
> --TOny
> 
>  On Fri, 24 Jan 
> 2003, Rappaport, Evan (MTVi) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks..
> > 
> > One other question.
> > 
>  > I'm trying to create a way to filter which articles that users see.  
> O ne thing that I would like is to be able to post to multiple groups at 
> th e same time.  In this way, I can have group specific announcements and 
> bro adcast announcements that span multiple or all groups.  What do you 
> thin k would be the best way of trying to implement this?  I was thinking 
> of creating topics for each group, but the problem of posting to multiple topics exists.
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > Evan Rappaport
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:46 AM
> > To: Rappaport, Evan (MTVi)
> > Subject: Re: Geeklog 2 etc.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Right now GL2 is not in a form we can distribute.  We are still in the 
> > planning phase for much of the system.  The only portions that have begin 
> > implementation is authentication/authorization (A&A) and session 
> > management.  
> > 
> > Will LDAP be supported?  I think so.  We will eventually need a resident 
> > LDAP expert on our team to implement the LDAP provider in our A&A system.  
> > However, A&A's SQL provider is not yet stable as things are still quite 
> > volatile so we will not begin LDAP support until we feel the A&A sytem has 
> > stabailized.
> > 
> > Right now we are hammering out the requirements for internationalization 
> > and after that the module API.
> > 
> > --Tony
> > 
> > 
> >  On 24 Jan 2003, Evan Rappaport wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Tony.  I was wondering if there was a way that I could get a copy of geeklog 2.  I was going to start using it for my office but didn't want to start writing things in an old version and have to rewrite everything when the new version of geeklog comes out.  
> > > 
> > > Is LDAP going to be supported in the new version of geeklog?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Evan Rappaport
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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