Ok, so I've worked with a few simple CMSs, done nothing fancy with em. ModX I just did basic pages with, and before that I barely even got CMS Made Simple to work at all (might've been my newness in entirety to CMSs).
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So here's what I have: I'm making the site for my youth group regionally. We have chapters, chapter boards, regional boards, staff, and city directors. I'd like to have one blog for each chapter that its board can post in, the city directors would all have their own blogs as well (so that wouldn't be as hard, that I guess could just be the regular un-configured blog module), as well as regional board. I want a forum, but honestly this style of forum is very confusing to me, and I'd like to use something like phpBB or SMF (neither of which I saw integrating modules for). It'd be nice to have an events page as well, where as we have conventions and other things that we'd like people know about.
So that's one possibility, or I just thought of this one:
Each president has a blog for the chapter, each city director has a blog, and possibly all of regional board (or just president).
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Besides this, I would like to get an email system working for the entirety of the region. I don't know exactly how this would work. Possibly through Google Apps, or possibly through some other way that would work (preferably Gmail, though it would be the free edition I believe).
Also, there's lots of people who need privelages: staff, regional board, advisors (maybe), and chapter boards/presidents. I would love to be able to give them a code they can enter upon registration that would give them the privelages for what they are.
-Using the profile module, I added a chapter selection to registration. Is there anyway to associate registering into a certain chapter with a person or group (like an advisor who could make sure that person is really part of it)?
And would this (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z290/latedude32/onr3.gif) be too difficult to code for Drupal?
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I think you can use ORGANIC
I think you can use ORGANIC GROUPS module.
And CCK to create a content type, which because of OG's only "river-of-news" option
will have blog like appearance.
Newb Confusion...
What exactly is CCK? I found that it was a module...But I search it and don't come up with specifically CCK...I'm somewhat confused to what it does stilll too...
And could you explain that river of news thing, I don't quite get it. Sorry :(
If you have installed a test version
If you have installed drupal (5x ) on your localhost you can download these modules, test, play and put up further questions :
cck - http://drupal.org/project/cck
og - http://drupal.org/project/og & http://drupal.org/project/og_reg_codes
ok...So I have them
ok...So I have them installed, but I still am having trouble. How do I create a group? I can't find any link or anything to do that, and I'd rather not having the members making groups as well... That would just make things much more confusing than they have to be. Also, I made a profile field for Chapter (which one they are in). Is there a way to change that and just make it like a group?
Drupal School
Sounds like you still need some basic training in Drupal --> says the guy who is new to Drupal as well. I'd recommend checking out The Art Lab Drupal School. Few weeks ago I had many of the same questions, but found these videocasts useful in getting me over some terminology and function humps.
http://www.theartlab.net/podcast/drupal-school
Watch some of the first podcasts (ie: go to page 3 / 4 from this link). In the examples this guy runs through, you'll get a better sense of Drupal logic as well as some key modules like CCK. Once you get CCK and general manipulation of Drupal, OG should be a piece of cake.
I'm also a very newb
I'm also a very newb Drupal-er; one thing to always do is find the install docs for each module and follow them. Sometimes the instructions are on the modules page where you download it, and sometimes the install details are in the folder that you downloaded.