Creating Different Members Areas

I am creating a site that would have different Profile Types that would have different access levels, permissions & areas. I have searched the Forums but haven't come across anything that discusses my topic in detail as I would like it set out. For example, I would like specific items targeted towards a certain profile type only. Let's use another Topic on this Forum as an example. Someone asked about having Business & Personal Profiles. A little different to what I need as I need many more Profile Types but the principal is the same.

The default options for Polls for example is to 'aim' your Polls at Friends, Members, Favs or Contacts. I assume that most other tasks you can do will be the same. I would like it so that I can 'aim' my Polls (or other tasks if similar) to a specific Profile Type such as Business Only in the simplified example above. I would also like certain Groups to be aimed at certain Profile Types too.

Now I am in two minds which way to do this & would like to know if either way I am thinking will even work. Option One would be to use the Profile Splitter Module but does anyone know if it will handle ALL of what I want to do? Option Two is a little more involved & that would be to create another site, like have a site within a site & only have certain Profile Type access it. This sounds a lot of work but would be the easier option but the #1 question would be can I create two sites to use a single Profile? I'm thinking both sites would need access to the user tables in the database of the initial site. Is this method possible & if so, easy to do?

I hope this all makes sense & hope I can find a solution. Thanks guys.

Well, I'm not sure if Profile Type Splitter will do everything that you want to do, BUT- I'm pretty sure it is the first module you will want to purchase to get your project started. It indeed gives you a lot of control over which Profile Types sees what content and more. If you are serious about this project, I can tell you- Buy this module from Anton with confidence...He provides good support.

How are you differentiating the Profile Types - are you using membership levels, or a field that you added to the profile fields? If using different membership types, then the easiest thing is the page access control.

Example - you have a membership type called "Business" - using the page access control, you can determine what pages, as well as blocks, that the Business members can see.

Thanks for your replies. I was looking at this post http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/micro-sites-in-dolphin.htm & in fact UnderDog4All did demonstrate how pages are used on his site. Looks good @UnderDog4All! :) That seems like a good option & I assume I can limit who can see the pages using the Profile Splitter right? What about limiting certain Polls to certain Profiles? Finally, is it possible to limit complete modules to Profiles with the Splitter? For example could I have a single Profile see/access the Ads Module? At the moment all I have done so far is create a Profile Type field exactly as you described ProfessorSr. That works to identify amongst members who is what but obviously does not have any impact on levels & who can do/access what. Thanks for your input guys, I just need clarification they will do what I need them to before I spend money on Modules.

Using the example of the polls. If you only want your "Business" members to vote on polls, then you would go into Admin - Settings - Membership Levels -> Actions (next to Business membership). Here you would make sure that "Vote" is enabled. For all other membership types, you would make sure that "Vote" is disabled.

Unfortunately, this does not work for separating polls. So if you have Poll A, and you only want Business members to be able to vote on it, and Poll B you do not want Business members to vote on - that won't work using the page access control/membership actions.

I guess if I am reading other answers right in other Topics relating to Modules, if I wanted to split Modules like that then I would need to duplicate the Module right? Probably not worth the work needed as it's not important. I had rather hoped the Polls Block enabled me to select a Poll then I could have disabled the Polls Page & just had the suitable Poll show on a Page restricted by Profile Type but the Block shows all. No problem though on that score. Thanks again for your input.

What about limiting certain Polls to certain Profiles?

I may be wrong, but yeah, I think if you want to separate different polls by different Profile Types, you would need to clone the Polls module and rename the new module(s) match the Profile Types you wish the Polls to work for- ie "Business Polls" for the "business" members and make that module only accessible by the "Business" member Profile Types and so on.

That's my initial thought anyway....and it also depends on HOW you go about separating your members (either via Membership Levels or via Profile Types) in order to manage access to the module(s).

Yeah that's what I figured & a little too complex for the sake of a few Polls. I'm in the process of setting up Profile Types in the Membership Levels ready to assign permissions. Initially I had it as a Profile Field selectable on the Join page which was displayed on the Profile & searchable. Are either of you guys using the Profile Splitter? If so, does it use Profile Fields or Membership Levels? If Profile Fields then does it actually manage Membership Levels?

Anton has another plugin that ties Profile Types to membership level (or vice-versa)----> http://www.boonex.com/m/Membership_Levels_Splitter

I haven't used the plugin, but have used the basic version of Profile Type Splitter and found it to be quite a handy mod :)

Okay thanks for the info. I think I need to contact Anton & make sure it/they meet my needs rather than invest to find they don't. Certainly it does look like it's what I'm looking for. I'm certainly going to use the method you used on your Pages on the other post I mentioned earlier. That looks cool! :)