Forum OpenACS Development: Re: RFC: Donationware Spec

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Posted by Steve Ivy on
Did anyone look at the ERD (last page) in the diagrams I posted?

I'm not at all sure about that "ORG" entity - what it really means or how to manage it. In the context of an oacs package, I could see this being used in a few possible ways:

  1. Singleton package on the server, limit one org per server. Easy to code, but lousy in terms is features.
  2. Singleton package on the server, use an admin page to manage multiple organizations. Not sure why we'd do this, when there's the option to...
  3. Multiple instances of the package. Each instance maintains organization information in instance parameters. This is where I'm leaning.
So - how important is it that donations, etc, have an explicit database relationship to "organization"? Thoughts?