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We've currently got a Drupal 7/CiviCRM 4.2.x site running with:

- A lot of custom data on the contacts (it's an education based application)
- Custom signup webforms (using the webform_civicrm module)
- Quite a few custom drupal modules to provide users a "dashboard" overview of the data rather than using the Civi UI.

We now have a requirement to launch a new site, on a separate domain, essentially it's exactly the same concept but:

- The custom data fields on the contacts would be different
- Therefore the signup webforms would be different

I don't want to just copy/clone the site, as then any changes I make to the codebase would need to be made for each site, and each site would need to be upgraded/patched separately etc.

Any ideas? I've looked at CiviCRM domains, but can't quite determine if it meets this requirement. The requirement I'm wondering about is how I can have different custom fields on different domains, whilst still using the same CiviCRM database.

Thanks,
Thom.

Hi Lobo,

Two things here:

- The users on one domain should not be able to see contacts on the other domain.
- The custom fields for the contacts on each domain would be very different. For example on the existing domain, we have custom fields about a students education history. We'd want these on the other domain, but they'd be very different as the education system is completely different. As far as I can see from the docs the CiviCRM "domains" concept is for segregating identical data sets.

I'm wondering if this is something we should do using Drupal multisite and two separate CiviCRM/Drupal databases, but sharing the same modules/codebase.

Thom.

Thanks Lobo, appreciate your feedback, very new to working out how best to do this, is causing a real headache!

Only other question I have (and I will try myself by experimenting and report back anyway to see if this works for us), is that I'm considering copying the original CiviCRM and Drupal databases to create the new ones (so we don't have to reconfigure everything from scratch), wiping the contacts/groups etc., then making the custom field changes and customisations at that point.

Does that sounds sensible?