multiple sections of groupjive

I have searched the forums and tried googling but to no avail.

I have groupjive installed and working well. configuration is working well. everything is working well.

What I am really wanting to accomplish is using cb groupjive in two totally incompatible ways. I want one site that has the groups used as game groups and another that uses groupjive for clan members. I need to be able to use totally separate language overrides for each, however I want them to be able to share most of the functionality of the other components in the same fashion..

a single log in for both sites, the site is totalassaultgaming.net/

The second site will have almost identical data usage but the "groups" will be structured in a totally different fashion..


The website is a gaming site with a ladder built into it. the groups are used to create game pages (one group for each game. eg: World of Tanks is one game (group) World of Planes is another game (group).

Now the problem; I want to also create groups for the clans. The layout and functionality is totally different from the game layout and I know I can't have both together.

Question is; what is the best way around this problem? master/slave site with shared database and groupjive fields split to handle each one separately or a modified copy of groupjive to create an entirely new installation of groupjive allowing each section to operate independent of each other?

I have looked at some of the multi-site components available MightySites and JMS Multisites .

I spoke with the developers for Mightysites and his response was as follows

2nd site (slave) can use same database tables as 1st site (master), hence it will have same contents, but next we can separate certain database tables for slave, so data from this tables will be unique.

If you know which groupjive tables can be separated - it will work.

Next slave site can be personalized as well with custom menu items and modules, own default template style.

Anyone had any experience doing this? anyone have any recommendations? anyone know what groupjive fields can be separated to accomplish this with multisite components? anyone have a different idea that could accomplish the task?

Thx..

Best way to organize it is probably to use the categories. Example as follows.

Games (category)
- My_Game (group)
Clans (category)
- My_Clan (group)

I wouldn't bother making 2 websites to try and do this as you'll have a massive headache of dealing with a multisite Joomla, which isn't remotely easy to setup.

There are plans to allow category, group, and menu template param support. Meaning a category and its groups can have a different GJ template compared to another category, but that won't be implemented for awhile.