Linking FEU users to each other?

[Bo Mellberg]

Hello everyone.

I am a new user of CMSMS. I really like what I have seen so far. I am implementing a site for a kindergarten using FEU for the internal pages and I would really like some feedback on what appoach to use.

These are the conditions:

Teachers: will be allowed "Editor" login, through the CMSMS admin panel.

Parents: will have there own login, through FEU.

Children: these will need to be "objects" somehow, with properties like an FEU user.


My problem is, I need a way to "connect" parents to parents, and parents to children. In a regular mysql-database I'd give each parent a unique index, and create fields that "point" to other parents, but how do I do this in CMSMS (if there is even a way)?

A child can have one or more parents. A parent can have one or more children. A parent can have zero or more parents in their family. With the "modern" constellations of familys today, there are a lot of options

The reason for not having "Family" FEU-users is that both parents should be allowed to login.

Best regards,

/Bo


EDIT: I guess what I'm looking for is a way to produce classes of a different kind than FEU. Is there a module that could help me?

[jmcgin51]

you can create extra User Properties.  For users in the Children group, you could have User Properties "Mother", "Father", "Other", etc.

What is the purpose of the "linking"?  Is it just for a visual reference, or do you need dynamic actions based on the linkage?

[Bo Mellberg]

The main purpose is to be able to produce lists. Or click a child and present a page with that family, the parents contact information etc.

I could add text properties which would contain the email addresses of the parents. But since the children are not FEU users, how would I go about to "create" them.

If I add child1, child2 (and an image for each) to the parent group, then every parent could add their children to their account, and upload a picture. But if each parent does that, then producing a list of children becomes troublesome, since the children occur several times in the parents list.

/Bo

[jmcgin51]

I think you might actually want a different solution here.  A module like Products might be better to manage the family structure.  (Sounds nice and touchy-feely, doesn't it, to call a person a "product"? 

I haven't thought this through all the way, but I think this might work better than using FEU.

You can rename the Products module so that it displays as "Family Manager" or something else.

One disadvantage of this is that I don't think Products supports frontend editing, so you would have to give each user access to the CMSMS Admin panel.  Obviously you can restrict what they can see and do there, but you may not want to provide that kind of access.

CompanyDirectory might be another option.  I haven't thought that option through yet either, but CD does at least support frontend editing.

I'll keep thinking.