Posted by tarsisnet on Thu, Oct 05, 2023 - 12:56am

Greetings to the forum,

I would like to ask an open question about using Backdrop as a software base for an intranet or extranet. I have years of experience working with Drupal 7 as a platform for developing intranet/extranet services. I use a number of well-known D7 modules for this, one of which provides role-based access control (node privacy byrole). Basically you have a web site that is mainly private, and users can access a node depending on whether they have been assigned a role or not; and a few public pages.

I have been trying to evaluate Backdrop to provide the same set of features, but I am not sure if I can replicate my usual D7 setup in Backdrop. Searching the web for information on this particular use case has not yielded any valuable information.

Does anyone here have any experience of using Backdrop as the basis for intranet/extranet services that they would be willing to share it? What module(s) might be useful to replicate the user access control on a role basis?

Thanks for your time,

Pedro

Comments

Thu, Oct 05, 2023 - 1:16am by yorkshirepudding

Hi Pedro/@tarsisnet

Welcome to Backdrop CMS. There are a few modules that can help and a module called NodeAccess is in the final stages of being ported before it is released.

Currently, there is Content Access and several more depending on your use cases. I think there are a few, but we have recently been supporting some people upgrading a D7 intranet for a large unnamed financial company to Backdrop CMS including converting a lot of custom modules.

What you are wanting to do (i.e. mostly private, with some public pages) can be quite easily done in Backdrop CMS. If it is at Content Type level then it can be quite simple to use but if node level then there are a few options to try.

Best of luck. Feel free to ask more questions in the forum or our chat channel 

Thu, Oct 05, 2023 - 2:00am by tarsisnet

Hi yorkshirepudding and thanks for taking the time to answer my question.

I'll study the modules you recommend and put them to the test to try and replicate my usual setup, both at content type and node level.

Cheers!

Thu, Oct 05, 2023 - 9:17am by izmeez

With Drupal for these types of deployments we have been using Organic Groups with additional modules very effectively. Backdrop now has the OG module and we are looking at migrating to Backdrop.

Thu, Oct 05, 2023 - 12:08pm by tarsisnet

Thank you izmeez. Your feedback is much appreciated.

Regards,

Pedro