Need to assign editor rights to 10 users but only for their own areas of site

[neuroboy]

Hi,

I'm new to CMSMS and so far I love it - I just installed Album and am over the moon with how it works! I've used other CMS's before (and built my own very basic one!) but this is the best for general site building.

However, I've got a specific application in mind - a project that I planned, managed and designed the layout and structure of the site for, but that someone else made a complete mess of in Drupal, thanks to us getting incorrect info at the planning stage!

The site structure is fairly simple and it should be a doddle in CMSMS - however, user access rights might prove difficult to set up and I cannot find a module that allows what I need.

It is an open access site that has all the generic sections like About, News & Announcements, Contact etc etc.

But the main core of the site is 10 similar areas representing 10 organisations. Each area will have information about the organisation, plus the ability for them to maintain a journal (probably based on the CMSMS news facility), make announcements and upload and add related images and files.

I want to be able to give the assigned admins for each organisation the ability to log into the CMSMS admin control panel with similar rights as Editors, but for them to only be able to add to and edit their own organisation's content and upload areas and galleries, and not any other (or the general content of the rest of the site for that matter!)

Does anybody know if this is feasible, or if there is a module avaialbe (or easily customisable) that would allow this? I have some  PHP programming experience, but at a fairly low level so this task might be beyond my ability.

The only way I think I can do it right now is by setting up 10 seperate 'instances' of CMSMS in seperate folders with seperate tables on the database, and tieing them together by linking from a further instance for the general site, possibly assigning each a subdomain. Not a very elegant solution I'm sure you'd agree!

Many thanks,

neuroboy

[cubix]

dont hold me to this but..

i think this is something on the roadmap for 2.0

[neuroboy]

dont hold me to this but..

i think this is something on the roadmap for 2.0

Okay, thanks cubix. The project probably can't wait for that though!

Anyone have any more suggestions?

I know CMSMS is not really designed as a community-based CMS, but I was hoping there might be something I can plug in that could get me a bit more flexibility as regards user rights and content editing restriction.

I'll probably have to look elsewhere - such a shame because otherwise CMSMS is perfect for the site. I'll definitely be using it for other projects though!