By kbpair on

I am hoping people can suggest the best way to create the following functionality. When a user registers they get a blog as well as a personal forum container with some predefined topics, as well as the ability to create one of a custom content type (CCK). Ideally their menu/navigation will link to the forum.

Think about students involved in a science fair. Each student will get a project page (the custom content type) with some standard inputs but the project page should be pretty free form since each student and project will be different. The blog will be used for project status submissions and teh forum will be used for other students to ask questions and discuss the project findings.

I would like the students to automatically get one project page, one blog, and one forum container. They should not be able to create more.

-------

I have thought about using Node Profile and usernode to lock down the Project Page but am unsure on the forum. I have never really used actions but I am guessing I could create teh forum upon registration??

I am open to any and all suggestions.

thanks

Brit

Comments

kbpair’s picture

kbpair commented

Happy Holidays to the Drupal community. I have some free time to work on this project again but I noticed nobody has responded to my question.

The root of it:

I would like each new user to get a personal forum container that is accessible by the public (OG forum is not).

What is the best way to accomplish this?

thanks again to everyone who contributes to drupal.

nancydru’s picture

nancydru
she/her/hers
Primary language English
Location Boston
commented

I've had a similar request out here for quite some time.

NancyDru

SueCarlson’s picture

SueCarlson commented

I would like something like that myself for a couple of my sites. Hope someone can suggest something. I will be working on trying to figure it out for myself as well, will let you know if I come up with anything.

nancydru’s picture

nancydru
she/her/hers
Primary language English
Location Boston
commented

I've been thinking a little bit. Forum containers and subjects are just taxonomy terms. Constructing a new term (or term structure) shouldn't be hard in a module - I've done it before. I just have no idea how to make CCK do it; maybe it's time to read a little on how to add a contrib to CCK.

Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database

NancyDru

SueCarlson’s picture

SueCarlson commented

http://drupal.org/project/mysite I am going to download it now, and see if I can make it do what I want it to, I need testers though so if you are interested in helping me out, let me know

{edit}
I downloaded, installed it, and tried to build my personal page, after putting in all the installs required to build the page without knowing any code, I don't see where it will let them "drag and drop" anything into their page. I don't see anyway to upload pictures, backgrounds, files. I don't think this particular module is going to be of much help to my grandparents site, I need something really easy for them so they just have to click click click and be done.

SueCarlson’s picture

SueCarlson commented

I tried SEVERAL times and several mod additions to get the mysite to mimic the myspace environment, even went as far as to attempt to install wysiwyg and that didn't work either. I am still looking for something that will allow the users to create their own homepage and allow for more interactivity on the site. This particular site I want this on is a High School Class site, and I graduated 30 years ago, newer graduating classes are all going to myspace. I want to atleast offer a "local" service for them.

Hope someone has some solutions.

www.ohs77.suesman.net

kbpair’s picture

kbpair commented

I have not used MySite, but my impression was the goal was not allow users to create content but just organize content. Like a MyYahoo or iGoogle page.

So I did not investigate MySite any further.

Well upon further review it seems like it could work, if the content created by the user was not displayed elsewhere. So if I create a custom content type that cannot be promoted to a front page but would be displayed on the MySite page.

I still need to create a forum container automatically for each user and have that displayed on the MySite page.

Unfortunately I am not getting much time to work on this.

kbpair’s picture

kbpair commented

I am going to investigate the Project and Project Issue tracking module as a potential for this.

summit’s picture

summit commented

Subscribing, any progress in this field please?

Greetings,
Martijn