By marcelv91 on

Hi, I don`t know if I am in the right forum topic for this, but I have a question about fields for a content-type.

I have a content type 'course'. With fields like name, description, etc.

Then I have course_subcription. Which references to course. Now for the subscriptions I want the following to be applied:

For two years after a trainee attended the course, I want to send the trainees messages every 6 months (not automated). And want to be able to keep track of whom I sent a message on which date.

Possible solution would be: Message sent (checbox) , on date (date input field) (and that six times, since I want to keep a little history)

Or: Date 1 (currentdate input) , message send? (Checkbox)
Date 2 (date: 6 months after date input) - message send? (checkbox)
and so on..

I hope you get the idea. I just don`t know how to fix this within drupal . Any pointers to get me in the right direction?

Any help is very much appreciated.

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vm commented

as you aren't developing a module, this question is better served in the 'post installation' forum. Please edit the opening post and move it. Thanks.

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marcelv91 commented

Ok, will move it. was not sure where to post this question. Thanks

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vm commented

Thanks for moving the post.

I'd investigate creating a message history content type.
using entity reference to link the message history to the content type in question

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marcelv91 commented

Thank you for this option. That`s a nice solution.

Then something else, lets say I implement your solution. How wold you keep track of 'todo'. For example, I have send messages to a few subscribers 5 months ago. that means they are next to be recieving a message from me. Can I add a rule or something to a few, to only show subscriptions which last message is sent more than 5 months ago? Or should I be looking for a custom module in that case?

Thanks again

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vm commented

perhaps the views.module to generate a list with exposed filters

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marcelv91 commented

Ok, so I will be able to add an exposed filter, and filter on dates? Because the date is a reference and not just a flat date..

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vm commented

yes.

as an aside to build out the features you seek and perhaps some you've not considered yet

http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations may be worth investigating in combonation with rules.module

others worth looking into:
http://drupal.org/project/views_send
http://drupal.org/project/views_rules

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marcelv91 commented

Thanks a lot. I will take a look at the modules you described.