Question

I’m making a social networking site powered by Plone and would like to set up relationships between users (friends, followers, etc.).

How can I achieve this in Plone 4?

Answer 1

Thanks for your answer

I was actually thinking of using ACL Group and reference mechanism when I asking the question.
This would help permissions and sharing.

• With each relationship, create a group for each user (UserA’s Friends)

• When user is created >

  • Create user groups >
    • Create references between user and groups using reference_catalog (which I don’t know how to or is it even possible)
    • Add localroles for new groups on user’s folder (relation-roles map can be config via a controlpanel)

• When relationship is created -> Create new groups for all users (would take time, but will be rarely used)

• Add/remove relationship -> Add/remove user from related groups

UPDATE: It seems that almost all that I need is implemented via plone.app.relations package.