I've been debating the best approach for setting up forms. I've spent some time reviewing modules including OG Forums, OG Panels, Advanced Forum, Core Forum module, Views, Panels, Taxonomy. Reviewed many sites, researched issue queues, and questioned the good folks on IRC. Now I'd like to start the build and I was hoping someone would eyeball my approach and see if it was the best approach or if I should employ another method. This would be invaluable for saving time, avoiding change management hassles, or having to redesign in the short term.
Expected Use Case:
- Hundreds of OG
Each OG utilizes the same CCK content types
Each OG possesses a parent category, there would be approximately 20 parent categories.
Each OG would need unique forums and administrators could add additional forums
- Users would have an OG dashboard where they could see a list of their forums or see all topics with the ability to filter on specified forum(s).
Afterwards, the above selection process users would be able to view a list of all topics within a forum(s) and link to the individual topic with the normal compliment of functionality.
I was planning on having each OG have it's own taxonomy similar to OG Forum, considered otherwise, and then went back to it. I'm thinking this is a good approach given the volume of different OGs with unique forums. I was initially planning on staying with the core forum module, but then discovered how container designation is stored within the variable table and so it seems less ideal to use that approach.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.