iMo Communities

A book is simply a bunch of "nodes" in a treeview (also known as outline).
A "node" is a page, a topic, an issue, whatever content you create here at this website is a "node" or derived from the node class.
So... a book consists of a treeview of content pages, and those content pages can have child-pages, and so on. Almost everything can be put in a book: if there is an interesting forum topic you can put it in a book, if that is relevant for the book.

The goal of this project is to improve this website :-) If you have issues or bugs related to this website, you can enter and track them here.

Visitors to this website have access to pages/resources, but not everyone has access to the same pages. Some people get to see more pages than others.
iMo is open source and open specs but only to people who are licensed iMo users. Therefore we have to hide certain resources on this website to people who are not (yet) recognized as licensed iMo users.

Authentication

We, the iMo Architects Group, want a website for two main reasons:

• we want to have tools to support colloboration and sharing in our group
• we want to have a website for programmers who are using iMo but who are not member of the iMo Architects Group

The reason for that first requirement is easy: we want to do our work better and easier.

This website is built on Drupal.
Drupal is a content management system that is very well suited for collaboration, as opposed to just publishing.

One of the cool things about Drupal is that every page has a content type (like: a book page, issue, forum post etc) but all content types are pretty similar because they all inherit from the common ancestor type "node".

Groups are collections of people who are sharing a common interest. A person can be member of zero, one or many groups.
When you create a page on this website, you can specify the audience of the page as one or more target groups. That means that the page is only visible to people who are member of the targeted groups.

A more practical definition is probably: you can create public pages (visible for everyone) or you can create pages that are only visible for members in your group(s).

This book talks about the features of this website, how it is organized and what you as a user can do with it.