Guidance for newbie... anyone?
Hi I am in need of some advice. I am new to Drupal, I have gone in and played around with it and gotten fairly used to it what I struggle with is how to actually use it to the full extent. I am working on a site, more or less to mimic another site for practice.
What I'd like to do is the following.
-listing of organizations and contact info
-listing of courses offered by each organization
-ability for organizations to log in, update contact info and add new courses and edit their own existing courses
-ability for users to search for orgs and courses
-ability to see which courses belong to which org and the reverse
I'm not sure where to start, should I be using CiviCRM for the contact info? if so how would I relate the courses offered?
do I need a CCK for the course content, it definitely has more than just title and description. Just not really sure where to begin or what's the best method. So many options just need some guidance. If anyone could provide me with some advice that would be great, I am very eager to learn Drupal and leverage it for so many other people and organizations that I deal with.
Thanks again.
Chris
You should be able to
You should be able to accomplish all that and more with Views module, cck. The taxonomy module is good for categorization of your organizations. Just install drupal 5, wich is more user friendly and more powerful.
Read the handbook. I have read it a couple of times, very helpful. Good luck.
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Thanks...almost
Thanks for the tip I assumed I could do this in Drupal but I'm kinda looking for a more clear and concise way of actually doing it. With drupal and all the modules people can you use I'm sure there are different approaches but what would suggest would be the best way to approach my particular scenario.
Thanks
cck, node reference, and views
civicrm would be overkill for your purposes. the best way to do this would be to create content types for the organizations and for courses. Put fields for contact info in the organizations-type, and put a 'node_reference' field in the courses_type.
When viewing a course, it will show a link to the organization, but to make a list of courses, you'll have to use views.
Create a new view, set it as a page, set the url to be node/$arg/courses. the missing $arg will become an argument in your view. to make a sweet tab on the node page, click add menu item and check "display menu as tab".
Add an argument: NodeReference:fieldname. Add filters Node Published andNodeType=course. Chose all your other options and that should be it!
You can also make another view to search for courses. Exposed filters can be used to filter by taxonomy, for example.
I know my directions for cck and views were breif, but if you just read through the forms, and don't be afraid to tweak you'll get used to it. views and cck can be scary, once you get to know them they'll be your best friend! :D
Relation many to many
creating a cours we could now select the organization,
but what if I come from the organization how to select courses?
With the CCK, you can add a
With the CCK, you can add a node reference field. That field has some properties like allowing multiple values. If you do it that way, you'll have a many to many relation.
hmm, not realy
I have Organization
ORG1
ORG2
have some courses
C1
C2
C3
now I'm on ORG1 and will assign C1 and C3, then I open C3, in C3 I would like to see that this course is assigned to ORG2 and should be able to assign another course C2 (and this C2 again will be seen as assigned if I open ORG2.
is this possible?
Thanks for all the replies
I think the biggest thing is scalability, I want to collect all this information but then I will also need to integrate it with CiviCRM so the users can email the groups and org's as well.