I had similar dilemma on one project and I can suggest to leave your users in /Users part. To make this happen you need to give read access to part of the /Users tree where your users are and map this part to web within templates.
We have done it like Ivo suggested in a few cases, and sometimes we set up a workflow to (or manually) create an additional location for the user account within the content tree.
How many users are we talking about? If your planning on going up in the 100.000 ranges, then you should try to keep attributes and user object versions low.
In this case, there are not that many users .. but indeed, many attributes x many users x many versions can inflate some tables beyond usable limits (performance, maintenance) wise
what is too much? I have a community with not that many users > 10.000 but many pictures. There are about 230.000 Pictures (growing: 1000 Pictures more per week).
At the moment i am thinking about to integrate all into ezPublish but i am not sure. Now i think its better to leave it external...?
I was also asking about using of LDAP in a previous Thread. Because i have no experience with LDAP and i want to migrate my existing users to ez, i am not sure if its a good idea to use LDAP for authentication. On one side it will help me to connect different systems like ezpublish and a jabber server or a external forum which also has available LDAP auth. But how is speed when compare mysql and LDAP on growing Users, < 100.000?
Is LDAP a good auth method for ez or more experimental? Is LDAP good for Web-Communitys or just for Intranet use with not that many Users?
Could you please explain how you set up a <b>workflow to automatically add a location</b> in the content tree (i.e Content section) to a user object created in the Users section ?
The extra attributes i need will be used to for Employee's Directory - job name, description, photo.. etc
So far I understood that I have to create users in /Users and can make that content available via templates. Any suggestions about ways to import the users?
Have a nice day! Anca
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