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DNNMasters Multi Portal User Sharing Xtreme is an advanced module extending functionality of DotNetNuke – a popular content management system for ASP.NET platform.

 

DotNetNuke is a very successful product, but it has serious limitation -  you cannot share users between portals. If you have only one portal or several not related portals this problem does not concern you. However, if you want to publish multiple portals and make them available to the same user base, you will find DotNetNuke not entirely adequate to the challenge. As you know, every portal (sub portal) created on DotNetNuke maintains its own, separate, list of users and that makes user sharing between portals impossible.

 

Possible solution:

user could create an account on every portal or administrator would be responsible for doing this (not an easy task when using just core product),
user is automatically logged out when switching portals, he is required to log in again on another portal
users lists created in this way are an absolute mess and unmanageable with core product, synchronization and maintaining such multiportal solution would be a nightmare,
DotNetNuke will not allow creation of users with the same username, even on separate portals, this precludes every attempt to create shared users list without modifications of DNN core.

 

DNNMasters Multi Portal User Sharing Xtreme is a perfect solution and remedy for this DotNetNuke limitation. Our module extends and enhances DotNetNuke functionality to let hosts and administrators share users across multiple portals with just few mouse clicks.

What’s more, shared users can switch portals without the need for logging again. However, administrators of individual portals have rights to assign roles to given user only inside of their own portals. Roles can also be shared between portals  and role assignments also. However, you can decide on "per portal" basis what you want to share.
Possible scenario is sharing only administrative roles and users so they can work on many portals without a need to remember many logins and passwords.

The Host can create virtual websites/portals containing multiple DNN sub portals – we call it ”Shared areas”. Shared area is a list of portals that are sharing user data and roles. In DNNMasters Multi Portal User Sharing Xtreme, you have the possibility to create unrestricted number of sharing areas and assign the same portal to several shared areas.

 

DNNMasters Multi Portal User Sharing Xtreme gives you following capabilities:

single sign-on, user can switch portals with single login,
sharing users between any number of portals grouped in shared area,
sharing list of roles between any number of portals grouped in shared area,
ability to define "sharing direction":
ofrom shared are to portal,
ofrom portal to shared area,
oboth directions,
ability to assign user different roles on each portal,
ability to share user-in-role,
automatic import of users from shared portals into shared area – no need for extra synchronization or external modules,
automatic restoring of correct user list during removal of portals from shared area,
ability to define any number of sharing areas,
ability to move portals between shared areas,
portals can belong to more than one shared area,
all settings can be done "per portal" so fine, granular control is possible,
all operations are transparent to users and other modules