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New Post 10/15/2007 3:50 AM
User is offline raghu pandey
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Implications of using 100+ repository modules in a portal? 

Hi Steve,

i am preparing a portal for a university which has 35 departments or colleges. So i am giving them an intranet portal which has 1 main portal and 35 child portals. Now on EACH child portal i need to add around 100-110 repository modules for various purposes and each module will have its unique 6-7 categories.

This means i am looking at approx 3500 repository instances under 1 main portal.

What could be the technical implications of this structure from

1) Application stability perspective, and
2) Admin's perspective i.e. portal management.

Has this been done by any of the users before?

Any inputs shall be greatly appreciated

Raghu.

 
New Post 10/15/2007 9:18 AM
User is offline Steve Fabian
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Re: Implications of using 100+ repository modules in a portal? 

I may be wrong, but I doubt that anyone has implemented that number of repository modules within a single portal. I am not aware of any 'technical' reason it would not work.  the only comment I have is that you might think about the overhead of maintaining that many unique instances of the module versus some small changes to the code which *might* allow you to have only 1 instance of the module and have the context of the module (categories, files, etc) filtered based on security roles...

not sure if that would work, especially if each instance will have separate unique categories, roles, etc. Certainly if the roles and categories where going to be duplicated across all those instances I would not want to have to perform the multiple maintenance required.

so, in summary, I see no reason why your structure would not work the way you've laid it out, however, I think it might benefit you to think about what changes could be made to the module to allow you to meet your goals through a single instance ( or at least a dramatically reduced number of instances ) of the module.


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New Post 10/15/2007 12:35 PM
User is offline Brad
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Re: Implications of using 100+ repository modules in a portal? 

Doesn't the repository store the information in one directory per portal (or optionally per user)? If you're using FAT32 the maximum number of files allowed in a folder/directory is 65,534.  NTFS gives you 4,294,967,295 files per directory.  No reason anyone should be using FAT32 on a server, but just in case you WERE considering it...

 
New Post 10/15/2007 2:02 PM
User is offline Steve Fabian
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Re: Implications of using 100+ repository modules in a portal? 

when logged in using the HOST account, you can set the physical folder path that each repository module will use to store it's files. So you can each have one folder per repository instance.


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New Post 10/16/2007 5:47 AM
User is offline raghu pandey
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Re: Implications of using 100+ repository modules in a portal? 

Thanks Steve!

Its valuable input. So iam taking a cue from 2 of your sentences.... "dramatically reduced number of instances" and "I am not aware of any 'technical' reason it would not work"

i'll re-look into my information architecture to reduce the number of instances and let it go Live... as it is said 'If it ain't broke don't fix it' so no tinkering of code. I'll share my experiences with the community :)

 
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