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By Rafael H. Schloming and Dennis Gregorovic
+ +The following is a requirements document for OpenACS 4 Subsites, part of the @@ -9,22 +10,22 @@ intranet/extranet website serves both units within the company (e.g., offices, departments, teams, projects) and external parties (e.g., customers, partners, vendors). Subsites enable a single OpenACS instance to provide each -subcommunity with its own "virtual website," by assembling OpenACS +subcommunity with its own "virtual website," by assembling OpenACS packages that together deliver a feature set tailored to the needs of the subcommunity.
The OpenACS subsite system allows a single OpenACS installation to serve multiple communities. At an implementation level this is primarily accomplished by -having an application "scope" its content to a particular package +having an application "scope" its content to a particular package instance. The request processor then figures out which package_id a particular URL references and then provides this information through the ad_conn api ([ad_conn package_id], [ad_conn package_url]).
The other piece of the subsite system is a subsite package that provides -subsite admins a "control panel" for administering their subsite. +subsite admins a "control panel" for administering their subsite. This is the same package used to provide all the community core functionality -available at the "main" site which is in fact simply another +available at the "main" site which is in fact simply another subsite.
The Subsites functionality is intended for use by two different classes of users:
Package programmers (referred to as 'the programmer') must develop subcommunity-aware applications.
Site administrators (referred to as 'the administrator') use -subsites to provide tailored "virtual websites" to different +subsites to provide tailored "virtual websites" to different subcommunities.
Joe Programmer is working on the forum package and wants to make it subsite-aware. Using [ad_conn package_id], Joe adds code that only displays forum messages associated with the current package instance. Joe is happy to