Pinned topic How to best utilize Drupal in practice focusing on extranet/intranet community sites.

First, thanks for going through this process. Many people are watching eagerly and it's much appreciated.

There isn't much being publicly written about intranet use. My guess is, precisely because of the private nature of these systems.

For a login page, you can develop a theme that displays extra information to anonymous users than just "access denied", as well as displaying a login block.

Session expiration is not a bad idea...it would be fairly easy to implement in a module. We're working on a password policy module, it might be good to fold that feature into it as well.

Security (I assume you also mean access control?) can be handled with a number of different modules which implement Drupal's core node_access in a number of different ways. Organic Groups is still my favourite method, and probably most applicable in a corporate/intranet setting. Combine that with the LDAP module for connecting to a corporate user store, and you've got something interesting.

Finally, some feedback on these forums. It is really hard to find the messages relevant to Drupal/the series I'm interested in. Consider having one forum per series...this can make the discussion much more focused.

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• ‏2006-09-15T04:25:44Z

First, thanks for going through this process. Many people are watching eagerly and it's much appreciated.

There isn't much being publicly written about intranet use. My guess is, precisely because of the private nature of these systems.

For a login page, you can develop a theme that displays extra information to anonymous users than just "access denied", as well as displaying a login block.

Session expiration is not a bad idea...it would be fairly easy to implement in a module. We're working on a password policy module, it might be good to fold that feature into it as well.

Security (I assume you also mean access control?) can be handled with a number of different modules which implement Drupal's core node_access in a number of different ways. Organic Groups is still my favourite method, and probably most applicable in a corporate/intranet setting. Combine that with the LDAP module for connecting to a corporate user store, and you've got something interesting.

Finally, some feedback on these forums. It is really hard to find the messages relevant to Drupal/the series I'm interested in. Consider having one forum per series...this can make the discussion much more focused.

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This is great! Thank you for the suggestions Boris. Of course this stuff is a moving target and we welcome any advice, suggestions and practical solutions.

We hope to describe our methods of implementing features we considered useful to the IBC extranet/intranet environment in furture articles. However, we'd really like to be able to refer to the solutions that other people have used since this keeps the subject alive and hopefully helps others solve their problems.

Regarding your comments on the forum organization. You're right. I'll try to figure out a better organization.

Thanks again!

The Automated Logout module (http://drupal.org/project/autologout) seems to do session expiration based on role policies.