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The settings via the UI should match closely to what used to be in the civicrm.settings.php file

Can you please update the docs (u need an account to modify the wiki) to reflect the latest changes to that as you give it a shot

thanx

lobo

On of the tricky things is that the term 'multisite' is confusing - it can refer to

1) 'Shared Codebase' - several sites sharing the same drupal / CiviCRM folders
2) 'Shared Drupal database' - several sites sharing the same drupal database using domain module
3) 'Shared CiviCRM database' - several sites sharing the same CiviCRM database - either separate Drupal Databases OR Shared Drupal database
4) 'Multisite module' - use of CiviCRM multisite module to manage permissions based on the site membership. This is on top of #3.

We almost always share the USER table when doing #3/#4 (& do so implicitly when combining with #2).

When reading the notes it's worth bearing in mind that the terms multi-site & multi-org are not always used consistently - it would be good to get the terminology better.

Hi,

We share the user table just so that people can use the same username & password. CiviCRM is unaware of this & just thinks it's a happy co-incidence that people have the same uid on different domains :-).

I think it would be useful to have a setting that tells Civi that the user table is shared so that it only creates one entry per UID (although we also use it in situations with a mixture of shared & not shared).

We have not shared other tables although we are considering sharing the roles table on one site