Setting multiple Q&A pages ??

Question

Hello,

 

I'm considering adding Q&A platform to my website. We provide 3 products, and I'd like to provide a mechanism for users to ask questions for each product separately.

So what would you suggest? Should  I set 3 instances of Q&A or should I provide one instance, and enforce (how?) the users to specify a tag that represents the relevant product name?

I'm looking for the most convenient usage in the users' prespective.

 

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

There are two options that spring to mind:

1. Use categories or tags. Categories might work best in your case since you can require at least one of the products as a category. Then you can link to your category pages from the main site.

2. Q2A allows you to share a user base between instances, i.e. you register at one site and the login works for all 3. They must all run off the same database, with different table prefixes.

There are a little over 20 tables in a Q2A installation so for 3 products that's over 60 tables, just about manageable. But if you think you will end up at more than 5 products it could get a bit unwieldy if you use any tools like phpmyadmin for backup etc. MySQL and Q2A should both handle it fine though.