By newz2000 on

Many of my users have very specific roles. I want to make their life easier. For example, someone who posts new job openings...

I'd like to give her a way to create new content where the content is already formatted and all she has to do is fill in the missing pieces. So she clicks "Create new content" -> chooses an appropriate content type -> Choose a template, for example, "job posting." The wysiwyg editor would have a dummy job posting and she could just replace the boilerplate text with the stuff specific to her post.

I have several things like this, not just job postings. Anyone know a way to achieve this? Do you create custom content types for each type?

I'm on Drupal 4.7 but I'm looking toward the future where I'll migrate to 5.1.

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p6 commented

My 2 cents

1) Contemplating here for the most part. See if you can do a CCK workaround with the whole thing... A 'fill-the-form-out' type perhaps ?.. I'm hardly the cck person and I reckon there will be a load of field-creations and misc stuff to take care of.

2) Write, get written something custom for yourself. Prefilled form text done with arbitrary hook_form_alter() magic ? Other ways to have default values perhaps ?

Would be highly useful if someone can rig something up that does this.. I know of people (inclusive of myself) who've had situations when something of this sort would've come in handy.

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newz2000 commented

I have two concerns,

I don't really want to *limit* their input to certain fields, I want them to have full control over the final result, I just want to save them the work of entering the repetitive input.

Second, I'm fearful that doing too much with cck will cause me problems when I upgrade to 5.1.

The ideal scenario would be to have the wysiwyg pre-populated with data, similar to MS Word's templates.

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GSMKer_Kevin commented

In my opinion cck would be the way to go.

I'm fearful that doing too much with cck will cause me problems when I upgrade to 5.1.

For the most part you should be ok with cck from 4.7 to 5.1.

The ideal scenario would be to have the wysiwyg pre-populated with data, similar to MS Word's templates.

It sounds like that is what you really want. You want pre-populated data but don’t want to limit their input, so having templates they could select from could be your middle ground road. Would definitely require some special coding.

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