By zaglick on

Hey all I am working on a helpdesk for work and am hitting the dreaded "MySQL server has gone away" error as I try to import my CCK content types from a production site up onto the production server. I have a different CCK Content type for each type of job that a technician is required to do. There are 61 of these content types. I am wondering if I have approached this process from the wrong direction and this is too many content types?

I hope this is the correct place to post a question of this nature. Thanks in advance.

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cfox612’s picture

cfox612 commented

are they really different? If they're not (and for your sanity), you probably want to use taxonomy instead.

drvdt’s picture

drvdt commented

I think same you. Only need a new content type when they have a huge difference in content (fields). If only difference in "type", use taxonomy is better.
In case you still want use content type, you can use many as you want.

My sites: Medicare

majorbenks’s picture

majorbenks commented

Same question. I have a site with many sections and each section has it's own maintainers. I used the right system and content types to solve that, but I am asking myself how many content types are too many? Are there any other possibilities to make sure that the maintainers only can maintain there own section?

spovlot’s picture

spovlot commented

It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. There is no reason to have the almost identical content types defined.

You might want to look at Organic Groups (http://drupal.org/project/og) to maintain separate "sections".