#1 Multi-user contribution

[jtdp]

This is my case:

I run a kind of "hobby community" site...

I would like to have members to be able to submit
articles for review & publication.

This means - a member of the site, verified against a
member database (this I can fix myself..) would be able
to use the "create page" functionality in his/hers "home"
directory for an article. The site admin then reviews it,
moves it to a section of the live site and "publishes" it
by that move (db updated with the move, of course)...

I am not clever enough to do this myself yet since I am
just starting out with .Net, but as I see it would be a
not too bad feature to get the ndCMS going to be a
standard for simpler community sites....

[Tim Bell]

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This seems like it would be pretty easy to implement however
I don't know if I'm going to undertake this request. I might do
this for a nominal fee.

For one I would probably have to create a separate
distribution: one regular, one community. Or make the
installer change their settings in the web.conf file.

Secondly there are already a ton of well established .Net
open source community projects out there.
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ just to name one.
I created ndCMS because I wanted to use a .net open source
CMS but as I searched around most of them seemed to be
community portals or were (how can I put this kindly)
functionally challenged.

Lastly I wanted to focus most of my efforts to the back-side
only. In my personal opinion the front-side should be wide
open so that it doesnt limit creativity and/or flexability.
Currently Im only limiting the front-side to use urls that end
in pageXX.aspx (XX = to the index of the page), but even
this could be optional (by the use of default.aspx?obj=XX or /?
obj=XX). Hell, the front-side could be php for all I care.

Solution if I undertook it:

All I would have to do id add an extra (bit) field to the user
database stating if their web-site subscriber or editor/admin.
Then add a date and status field to the tblPages table.
Lastly create a front side login with a page/article submission
(page with a status of awaiting approval). Upon approval
the status would change, thus publishing the page regardless
of it belong to a particular section or not.

tim[at]thirdspin[dot]com