Parent/Child site for share !!

[g_rathod]

Friendz,

Can we have parent / child relationship sites in alfresco share.
let say  I have site A, site B.

           A (parent site)
          |
          |
          B  ( b extends a )   child site


let me know if we can achieve such a thing. I need it little soon if you guys can help me out.
Let me give hint, links or any solution we can use.

Thanks,

[mrogers]

No,  unfortunately sub-sites are not supported.    But please step back a little and explain why you would want such a thing.

[mbailey]

I would like to have sub sites as I would like to have one parent site for all clients and then a sub site for each individual client. I can then provide access to a client's individual site. I know I could create a site for each client, however I would then end up with thousands of sites running which be overwhelming as a mapped drive. Having each client as a sub site to the main client site would simply keep things more organized. The only alternative is having the capability of sharing an individual folder with a user.

Perhaps my perspective is too narrow?

[gman]

Your perspective is not too narrow. This is something that cannot be done directly in Share. You can do this but you have to use both Alfresco spaces interface and Share. I'm not sure how well it will work for a large number of sites. As  SharePoint and FengOffice user I know that it can become convenient to create nested sites/workspaces.

I need to leave work in a few minutes. As time permits this weekend I will provide a write up and tutorial that has worked for some limited testing I have done regarding this.

[gman]

After reading your second post, it appears that what you want to do doesn't make much sense. If you have one parent for clients you still end up with thousands of clients sites under the parent. Are you wanting to place the various client sites into different categories or subjects? Are you wanting to better organize the client sites for your own webdav access? I think you need to provide a better description of your needs.

[gman]

Well, since I'm currently testing Alfresco I have been upgrading to the latest night;y builds. Something I was able to accomplish on the previous 3.3G nightly build no longer works on the April 30, 2010 nightly build. After moving a Share site from the Sites space to another space breaks things in Share for that particular site. This did not happen in the 3.3G build before 4/30. So I guess I will continue to test and will not post my example until I get it figured out.

[gman]

It appears that things are working with new sites created after the upgrade. All sites created before the upgrade are "broken" in Share. Appears the permissions reference to the old sites has been broken for users assigned to the sites, since for the admin user everything still works. Is there anyway to fix this?

[gman]

Discovered something else. For those sites that were "broken" after the upgrade I found the following worked, but this would be impossible to do if there were hundreds of sites. If I take the individual site form the sub space, cut and paste into sites, access the site in Share as the non-admin user with permissions, cut and paste the site back into the previous sub space, the site is no longer broken in Share for the non-admin user. Not sure what this means, only to be careful with upgrades.

UPDATE: Discovered that if I restart Tomcat all the references once again are gone. I can only conclude at this point for the Community edition there is not a safe upgrade path? But since this is a community edition and I'm in test mode I can live with this until I can get a better handle as to what is occurring and figure it out. Alfresco is a nice product.