By xcorex on

Hello,
I wanna build a drupal site as a gift for my father. He deserves it because he loves dairy farming and I love him.

The aim of the software are:
- To keep in touch with the amount of milk produced by each cow;
- To help my old man just enter the date and the milk production per cow (I can help managing the cows list for him, maybe with taxonomy manager).

Here is the Mockup:
http://i.imgur.com/K3lCI.png

How to implement it? What kind of modules are necessary?
Any insight will make both of us eternally grateful. Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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audster commented

While I firmly believe there is a module for just about anything you want to do with Drupal, I was pretty sure I wouldn't find anything for cows, let's face it, they are notoriously bad at web development ;)

BUT I got to thinking that production and time are things we track with those annoying humans and we often do this with spread sheets... really nice when they are editable too...

try this:
http://drupal.org/project/sheetnode

There are some folks using the storm project to track employee production/hours and I thought, well, what if you just put in gallons instead of hours? But it looks like you have to enter beginning and ending times and then the hours are calculated (check it out for yourself, I could be very very wrong in this assumption)

And finally, you could think of this as a survey...
which cow did you milk?
how many gallons were produced?

Which would be easy for your Dad to enter too!
http://drupal.org/project/webform

I think you can even output the results spreadsheet style too...

hope this helps

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xcorex commented

First of all, I really appreciated your sense of humor. :)
I think sheetnode is not that easy for an old man, but I'll give it a try.
Thanks

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audster commented

I think doing it as a survey would be easier for him and then you could handle outputting it as a spreadsheet..

That way you just need to look at the survey results to see what's going on with production...

You could also do this, of course, by creating a "cow" node and "production" nodes and use a reference field to link each cow with it's production, then use views to spit out the report...

But it sounded like you wanted a quick way to get this going that was easy for all...

I'd LOVE to see it when it's done! I spent 2 years working on a dairy farm so it's near and dear to my heart!

Cows are nice people.