karnage

Wow, thanks Diogo! That looks like it will do the job I am looking for, that coupled with the other module by Adrian (Protected mode) looks to solve 2 of the problems I will also be adding in Pro Drafts from Ryan and that seems to be all the modules I need for this project (much better than the 20 or so I had for Wordpress)! Now just to work out how to pull the content from one branch of the tree and display it to the external department user role when logged in to the front end (as they only need access to a certain category). Any pointers on that problem?

Hi Guys, Been lurking the forums for a while and now have some questions on Processwire. Let me set the scene Firstly, I am no programmer, however I can hack my way around HTML, CSS, JS & PHP (with the basic knowledge I have in each, but have learnt a lot from this community so far with the excellent posts and tutorials I have found). The project I am working on is fairly large. The current site is built on an old Wordpress Multi-Site install and has become a mess after 4 years of updates and the need for many additional plugins to enable functionality (to the point where it is now broken and very slow). I looked over a few solutions to change over too, the closest I found for my needs was Modx which eventually led me to stumble over Processwire by [a happy] mistake After evaluating PW and starting to love its simplicity (after getting over the fact the everything is a page ).What sold me was the Selector Engine/API ! The end goal is to recreate our product portfolio and support knowledge base where support documents can relate to a 1 or more products. I have made some progress in chopping up my HTML template and getting all the basics working (home page, product pages, support pages) which was surprisingly easy with PW Now I am heading into unknown territory and need to ask the advice from the experts. I have 3 internal departments and 1 external team (3rd party). The external team should only be given access to a particular set of info aggregated from one of the categories and no admin access. Here is an idea I have for the structure (please do let me know if I could simplify this in any way or am looking at it from the wrong angle) :- The entire site needs to be behind a front end login. The root/home page should check the users role and only display content from their department (unless they belong to more than one role in that case they will have access to that too). I would ideally like each editor to be only allowed to see and edit their own departments content in the site tree via the admin (is this even possible)? Here is how I have envisioned it so far:- Root ---> -------------->Department 1 ----> Product 1 ----> Related articles ----> Product 2 ----> Related articles -------------->Department 2 ----> Product 1 ----> Related articles ----> Product 2 ----> Related articles -------------->Department 3 ----> Product 1 ----> Related articles ----> Product 2 ----> Related articles -------------->External Department ----> Product 1 ----> Related articles (Aggregated Content from Department 1) ----> Product 2 ----> Related articles (Aggregated Content from Department 1) I hope this makes sense (apologies if it doesn't), I look forward to your feedback.