[Drupal] Monster Menus

Fri Sep 27 14:31:07 EDT 2013

I've done some work with organic groups (OG) and this could probably meet your needs. OG allows you to set up a group which can have users "join" it (or be assigned to). Within OG, it's possible to assign some content permissions per group, so if you only wanted people in the "MBA" group to have the ability to add a "News" type of content, you could do this. Also, combined with OG menu (https://drupal.org/project/og_menu), you can have menus per group that only users of the group can post to. In addition to this, there is also the ability to integrate with Panels (https://drupal.org/project/panels), which can be helpful for some complicated contextual layout type things.

Having said this, this solution is probably one of the more complex ones. There is a learning curve, but it can be fairly flexible. You could probably accomplish some of the same things with Emilie's solution with less complexity, so I would definitely evaluate both of these solutions.

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Brian Kildow
Web Developer
The Ohio State University
College of Engineering Web Services
025 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-8799 Office
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From: <Meade>, Emilie <Emilie.Meade at osumc.edu<mailto:Emilie.Meade at osumc.edu>>
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Date: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:23 AM
To: Drupal users list <drupal at lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:drupal at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Drupal] Monster Menus

Yes, we use Aegir still. There is definitely a learning curve with it. I think it all depends on what kind of control you want for each department. Will they each have their own domain name or are you just trying to control who has access to edit content? Will the theme be radically different between each department?

We were able to achieve quite a bit with Workbench, Context and Menu Block on hsl.osu.edu. Workbench let us control which role or user can edit content in sections. It also let's us control the publishing workflow. Context let us control the look of each section and what menus and blocks appeared in it. Menu Block let us control which level of the menu is displayed in each section.

I don't have a lot of experience with it, but Organic Groups https://drupal.org/project/og might be another option. Each department could be a group.

[The Ohio State University]
Emilie Meade
UI / UX Developer
Health Sciences Library Digital Solutions
410 Prior Hall, 376 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
614-688-8662 Office
emilie.meade at osumc.edu<mailto:emilie.meade at osumc.edu> hsl.osu.edu<http://hsl.osu.edu/>

From: <Little>, Jason <little.129 at osu.edu<mailto:little.129 at osu.edu>>
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Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:44 PM
To: Drupal users list <drupal at lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:drupal at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Drupal] Monster Menus

This isn’t the answer you are looking for but…

There are currently 12 sites in the world that reporting using the latest stable 7.x release of monster menus (33 across all versions) and the maintainers of this module are not maintainers for many other things.

As this module appears to do some very advanced and specific things, that is a very scary place to be. You could easily end up maintaining it, forking it, or running into a lot of compatibility issues with other contrib modules which simply never came up in the 33 sites using it.

Have you considered domain access (more like monster menus) or Aegir (multisite)? Both have fairly large install bases, and I believe there are people on campus who are well versed in both solutions.
https://drupal.org/project/domain<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://drupal.org/project/domain&k=ux7ohqYFcw1oDo0gOpSLlw%3D%3D%0A&r=bLeH1Jnd16O6w8yGDeScsQ5JxrMt%2FZuE7cn12t%2F1RbI%3D%0A&m=E%2BCduA60ae%2BWkMJ4B0gSlYmEnZQEV2uVPICMXxORcgw%3D%0A&s=59b1b9843f319aff2d0771218a76b712d55c2ccf2683f99055a90f5840b6e3ae> (I think someone around here is using this)
http://community.aegirproject.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://community.aegirproject.org/&k=ux7ohqYFcw1oDo0gOpSLlw%3D%3D%0A&r=bLeH1Jnd16O6w8yGDeScsQ5JxrMt%2FZuE7cn12t%2F1RbI%3D%0A&m=E%2BCduA60ae%2BWkMJ4B0gSlYmEnZQEV2uVPICMXxORcgw%3D%0A&s=083bfe6e011a842be6507b094b22826d717341d827031d285b55cb7e915f311d> (asc, eng, prior?)

Alternatively, you might be able to do a lot with workbench and its access control modules.

Best,

Jason Little
Team Lead
Web Services
College of Engineering
Fisher MBA Candidate
Ohio State University

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Subject: [Drupal] Monster Menus

Hi all!

I’m wondering if anyone around here has used Monster Menus. From what I’ve read, it will do exactly what we need for segmenting a site into departments so each one has its own navigation and permissions, without resorting to a multi-site installation.

We’ve got it installed (which was a long process) but we’re running into some issues, which I suspect is partially a learning curve thing but it’s also perhaps how we set it up. It’s a new Drupal 7 instance so I don’t know what might be causing the issues.

Long story short, is there anyone that might be able to spare some time to visit Fisher and help us out?

Thanks,
Rob

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