I'm having a tough time conceptualizing this for some reason. My site, KidPub.com, is a place for kids to publish stories. I'm trying to set up pages that a classroom can use. What I 'm trying to put together is:
- A landing page for each class. Call it a Class Page.
- The Class Page has content that can be edited by a teacher/page-owner, but not with the Edit tab, I'd like to use a webform instead.
- Each Class Page has a link for the teacher/page-owner to add a new story to the page
- Teachers should be able to manage their class' stories (edit, delete)
- Stories should display a link back to the Class Page
I've been trying to do this with Views and Contemplate with not much success. The landing page is simple...I've created a new content type, Class Page, and there's a View to display a list of them.
My attempts have been mainly around using the UID of the Class Page owner to group the nodes into a class, since the individual students are not necessarily site members...the teacher owns all of the nodes and the author field for a particular story is simply a text field. I'd like to avoid allowing the teacher into the Edit tab, as I don't want them messing about with things like Comment settings and such. I'd rather present them a simple for to add a story.
My trouble is in getting a View to show up on the Class Page with the correct stories, and in setting up the webform to add a node.
Am I at least on the right track. or would you do this differently? I'd prefer to use out-of-the-box Drupal modules but I have done a fair amount of PHP in the past.
Thanks...
Perry
www.kidpub.com
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This is probably to late for your site but have you looked at the DrupalEd distro? They may have a solution for this in their setup you can look at. See also their groups site
From your description it sounds as if you may need Organic Groups though I can't think of a way to get around the 'edit tab' update.
-Steven Peck
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Hi Perry. Have you looked at
Hi Perry.
Have you looked at Organic Groups?
It would allow you to set up a group for each of your classes, offers a lot of features, and integrates nicely with Views.
Worth a look.
Pete.
Possibly...
I looked at OG, but the use case isn't really a group, it's one user (the teacher) with edit privs on 'their' page. I'm leaning toward Contemplate with custom tables.
Rolling your own
Yes, I'm impressed by the API that Contemplate delivers; despite being an aging programmer I still like to get my hands dirty ;-)
Contemplate vs OG
So now I've been playing a bit with OG on my dev site, I can see how it could be modified slightly to serve my purpose. I'd basically just need to disable a few features, and I'd end up with a single-member OG for each class. It's probably overkill for what I need, but it would avoid a fair amount of coding.
Oops
Sorry, sepeck; I replied to a stale copy of this and didn't see your post.
Pete.
heh, not like I haven't myself.
the more people recommending resources the better. If if those overlap :D
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MySite module?
While I have not used the mySite module it sounds like it could be useful for what you are trying to do.