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Author Topic: How to do multi-site?  (Read 1683 times)

zulugrid

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How to do multi-site?
March 26, 2010, 03:41:30 pm
In theory, what we want to accomplish is pretty simple:
  • One parent organization that has access to all the data from the child organizations.
  • Child organizations with unique logins that give them access only to their own data. It'd be nice (but not required) if each child org could have its own Drupal theme.

Preferably, we don't want to have a whole set of tables or an additional database for each child org, because as of writing we have 71,129 child orgs (although we'd only be starting with a few dozen actually using CiviCRM).

Is this even possible with CiviCRM multi-site? We've tried following these instructions at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Multi+Site+Installation without much success, and looking at the CiviCRM tables, it doesn't look like the important tables like "contact" and "group" even have a domain_id field.

Any ideas or suggestions? Other webpages I should be looking at?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: How to do multi-site?
March 26, 2010, 06:05:15 pm

seems like multi-site does handle most of your use case (the current sponsored focus also was sharing a common set of configuration information). all contact separation is done via ACLs

Each child site is its own drupal site, so hence can have its own theme. you might want to elaborate a bit more on "without much success"

the development on that is still ongoing, so the state is "developer-ready" IMO :)

however, i'm not sure if it will scale to 72K orgs

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Re: How to do multi-site?
March 27, 2010, 02:46:52 am
The contacts & group table don't have a domain ID field but each site in a multi-site has one group that is specifically associated with it. All contacts are in at least one site specific group.

Groups can also be nested into groups so other groups can be site specific by being children of the site group.
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Re: How to do multi-site?
March 30, 2010, 07:12:42 am
Thanks, this information was helpful. I must've missed the ACL stuff when reading through the multi-site setup instructions.
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