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Only issue i have is learning how to use jms.

Greetings Edwin,

I have bought your very comprehensive component not fully knowing that it is designed for use at the initial development of sites (this is becoming clearer to me now). However, i have two Joomla sites with Community Builder 1.2.1 on them and i fundamentally need to share the user access before continuing to develop and expand them. While the sites are quite small in regard to memberships, one is definitely the MAIN (master content) site, i need to find the best work-around to get our memberships having a unified experience.

Both sites are using Vituremart for full function e-commerce. The "slave" site is a SPECIALIST retail division of the MAIN (master) site so it has some overlapping product ranges.

No matter how crude, please advise how i can get these sites (or perhaps a clone of the SPECIALIST site) working together. Can i make a new slave site from the MAIN (master) that is a design clone of the SPECIALIST. I'm prepared to re-input the registered members details if they can't be imported/exported in.

For reference the sites are sharing one database on one server, the MAIN is jos_.

One way or another i need to bring these sites (or replicas of them) into unity, please advise on ways forward.

Astehmari

Concerning the user sharing between existing website, I have no solution to propose to you and I don't know any method that could be used to export / import the user and also maintain all the DB consistency when you change the user ID.

Concerning your VM shop, you can share them in VM and perhaps you could create VM categories for your different "specialist". This will give the possibility to create "common" categories that could be used by several slave sites.

If you have group of specialist,you could also decide to create a template slave site for each group. All depends the level of shared information you would like to group together.

Copy / clone / replicate the master website is possible and you have to create a JMS templates to define the rule.
Becarefull when you are using the "jos_" table prefix for the master website.
In this case, we recommend to use another DB for the slave site and never re-use the master website DB. Just to avoid that you replace the jos_ table prefix by error. I remember you that when you create a fresh slave site, if you are using the same DB name than you master website and if you forget to change the table prefix provided by default, this will erease your master website and replace its content by the fresh slave site.

I am at the point of setting up a website that will have Joomla in a subdirectory of the root... I will also have 3 other Joomla installations each in their own sub directory off the root...
I also will have an ELGG installation and a Moodle Installation in subdirectories off the root...
Can your product link all of the databases with the same user and have all logins occur when the user logins in the Master Joomla installation?

Read the product detail that explain the sharing users and the single sign-in.
www.jms2win.com/download

In summary, you can create several website that share the joomla users or share some extension like community builder or jomsocial.
There is a limitation concerning your environment. You have to check that you are using MySQL 5.0 and that you have all the MySQL privileges to share the MySQL tables.
See tutorial video 16 that show how to share users.
www.jms2win.com/tutorial#jms12x-16
See also the tutorial video CP-02 that show how to create a DB on cPanel and limitation concerning the "MySQL" privileges.
www.jms2win.com/tutorial#jms12x-CP-02

Concerning the single sign-in it only works on the same domain.
This mean that your websites can be subdomain or subdirectories.

Concerning ELGG and Moodle we don't know.
Can you give send us these joomla extension to allow us review them.

Thank you for your prompt response... ELGG is a community builder outside of Joomla but can be linked in to Joomla through a bridge or extension... elgg.org/

Moodle is a Courseware application moodle.org/ there is a bridge between ELGG and Moodle that exists.... and there are extensions and bridges for Joomla and Moodle...
What I am looking for is one application / extension that will link and synch Joomla, Elgg and Moodle with two other Joomla installations...