Is there a reason why the Multi-tenancy or Common Filters wouldn't work? http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#Common-fields-and-multi-tenancy
I've used common filters in the past with success. -Jim On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 10:59:27 AM UTC-6, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > I'm in the process of turning an application that was used by a single > organization into one that will be used by many, I'm using regular Auth and > auth groups to manage which users can do what according to what groups they > have memberships on. > > The first problem I'm facing is that the users that belong to a given > auth_group will now only belong to that group in a given organization, > which I guess would also be a problem with regular auth functions. > > Another problem is that I want the organizations to be able to share some > of their data with another organization. > > So, right now, I'm considering what would be the best architecture for the > application. > > One idea would be to store the organization the user is currently browsing > with (no reason to limit that one user can only belong to one organization) > in session, then I would have to check in each controller if the user has > the right group and organization for what he wants to do, this would > pollute my code somehow. > > Another idea is for each organization to become a group, then what I use > groups for right now will be permissions, this is probably the best route. > This would still leave the problem of making the user see the right data > depending on which organization he is currently browsing with. > > Any advice on how to do this as cleanly as possible in terms of code? > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
