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Review of Drupal Gardens People, Users, and Roles
There are hundreds of content management systems online today. New ones are showing up every month, so many that it's hard to keep up with them. The most prominent are Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. I want to take a look at one of Drupal's features that sets it apart from the rest.
Drupal's Users, and Roles.
The power behind this Drupal feature is its ability to manage multiple users and assign any number of roles to that user.
What drupal's users, and roles provides to its users is the ability to manage an online community that is contributing to the user/owners website.
Drupal is providing some very unique features that give their community an incredible edge over other CMS. With Users and roles you can have an unlimited amount of users, give permissions based on roles to each user and set up your site to automatically assign those roles as your users progress through whatever criteria they need to accomplish to get that role. .
Let me explain about each of those features in turn.
Unlimited users really does mean unlimited. Drupal is designed to scale to as large as you need it. If http://www.bestbuymobile.com/ and http://www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com are using drupal... well unlimited means unlimited
Unlimited roles. Inside Drupal, roles can be setup such as a blogger role or an editor role or a "friend that can write" role. Whatever and with each new role you can assign what that role can and cannot do. Once all the permissions are set then you can begin setting up users for those roles. The great thing is that users can have multiple roles.
Finally your site can be setup to automate the role assignments as your users work through your site. Whether its posting 3 times to become a second tier blogger or buying a product to get access to certain materials. A role can be used to protect your content until you give users permission to access it.
The only bad thing that I have found for the drupals's users, and roles is the setting the permissions take time and can be confusing as you scroll down. Its not a huge problem but you have to really pay attention. .
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