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Hello!

I'm one of the developers of JMS, and these are a few things I am experimenting with / thinking about / having issues at the moment.

2007-06-10 Testing propagation.

I knew I had forgotten something! I've done some testing over the WE, cleaned-up some bugs and have put a new com_jms together. We still don't have any documentation but here it is:

• Latest com_jms (0.8.1alpha): com_jms_0.8.1alpha.zip

Still some testing required, so in my files, I've put 3 files to test propagation with minimum damage to your JMS install (these are all blank components from various Joomla/Mambo tutorials).

• Blank component: com_blank.zip
  
• Hello world module: com_helloworld.zip
  
• Log events mambot: mb_log_events.zip
  

Like I said, no need to test component propagation, it doesn't work (yet)!

2007-06-10 Shared directories.

I'm trying to understand how multiple administrators might use JMS (simultaneously).

Main problem (that I can see) is that some joomla directories are shared no matter whether subsites are shared or isolated. These include the image directory, components, modules and mambots. Image is a non-issue (just create a subsite directory in there). The others are more serious.

In my opinion we cannot leave administrators install components/modules/mambots or they will just walk on each other's feet. But if we don't let subsite admins install their own components/mambots/modules, then the main site admin must do it for them.

I've started with this tool I call "propagate". Propagate updates the components/modules/mambot tables so that something installed for the main site, will be available (but not published). Right now, I'm having a bit of a struggle with components and these ARE NOT propagated. Would you really want to install a new component as an afterthought? probably (you never know).

Eventually, this propagation might happen AS something is installed on the mainsite. Say you forgot to install the multithumb mambot (excellent by the way). No problem, install it on the mainsite and it automagically becomes available on all the subsites. This really would be ideal (I think).

The only thing that would then be left to do (or could that be done automatically as well?) would be to share/isolate the new tables created by the component/mambot/module. Or maybe this is something we might just leave for subsite administrators to handle (via the template tab if we can).

Thank you for reading and come again!

Cheers,
Egor

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Version	Author	Last Modified	Hits	Diff
#7	Egor Zindy	2007-06-12 16:52:20	644	Show diff
#1	Egor Zindy	2007-06-06 07:25:20	102