A Website Within A Company Website
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I work for a large multi-national electronics company. One of the challenges I have is organizing all my bookmarks/links to Company sites and forms. I would like to allow limited access to a few engineers who would use the website to navigate within the company primarily but outside as well. Is Concrete5 the tool for this problem? And if so where do I begin?
Let me clarify my needs. I have to access forms and documents on my Company's web site. I would like a controlled website that allows me to link to these forms. Our Company is very restrictive as to what we can do internally. On the on the other hand, I work on the Company network and access the internet easily. My thoughts are to have a website, possibly in Concrete5 which has links to sites internal to our intranet. I want to access other pages to sites not within our Company as well.
It sounds like you just need to restrict the access using permissions on the concrete5 site so only select people can view the links to certain files/documents, correct? If so, then certainly, concrete5 can be used to do so.
Let me clarify my needs. I have to access forms and documents on my Company's web site. I would like a controlled website that allows me to link to these forms. Our Company is very restrictive as to what we can do internally. On the on the other hand, I work on the Company network and access the internet easily. My thoughts are to have a website, possibly in Concrete5 which has links to sites internal to our intranet. I want to access other pages to sites not within our Company as well.
Unless you're doing something really off-the-wall strange, I don't see why you can't make it work. Again, using the built-in permissions in concrete5 to restrict access to the site. Once you do that, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to link to whatever/wherever you want. It sounds to me like you're just trying to use the c5 site as a portal.
My impression is that there is already a website and you would like to add this CMS to it?
I would suggest putting it in a sub-domain of the site so that it won't interfere with your companies website.
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The permissions in Concrete5 can get that job done. There's user/groups, and you can set permissions on default pages like read access. You would just have to create a group for your engineers and give that group read access to the pages that have your private links on.