By Anonymous (not verified) on
Hi
I am proposing Drupal to a client as a possible solution to an existing booking system that is unsustainable with the company growth. The system is ok but as I have learnt it is going to be expensive and difficult to add functionality as although the code is ok its not built on an MVC like zend or cakephp.
I think Drupal could be a good sustainable fit. A few roles, time booking functionality, file uploads, emails from the account and integration with Big Blue Button module. I am an optimist so I would be greatful if anyone foresees problems using Drupal for this....of course there will always be problems with any application.
Thanks
Ed
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This is the only potential issue (the rest is pretty standard drupal functionality. What will be booked? Can you provide more details for the booking use case?
tutors
tutor flags availability in a calendar. school teacher/administrator books time with a tutor for a student based on criteria of language and subject. i,e a tutor is found from a pool of tutors with a specialism in a language and a subject (tutor x can teach maths in German) and then a time is booked from the availability he/she has set. This time slot booked sets a Big Blue Button meeting slot.
so 4 account types/roles. apart from big blue button, calendar module, contexts....
thanks
ed
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Ah ok, that's pretty standard stuff. Some modules to check out:
http://drupal.org/project/agreservations
http://drupal.org/project/reservations
http://drupal.org/project/registration
http://drupal.org/project/rooms
Don't get hung up on terminology (ie 'rooms' or registrations') -- what's needed is the ability for someone to sign up for something and they all do that. There may even be more-- those are just the ones i know of off the top of my head.
thanks
i will check them out.
cheers
ed