By derricko on

Okay, I'm a droobie and this is my first post on drupal.org (I appologize in advance for the amount of lame in the following post)

I created 4 user roles; Staff, Employers, Students and Admin.

In theory:

Students should be able to create, view, edit and delete only their own resumes
Staff and Admin should be able to view all and edit all resumes
While Employers should be able to view all resumes and search for them using keywords.

This is what I've done.
I installed CCK (I'm not sure why but another post said it was a good idea) then I created a new content type called "Resumes",
I was able to restrict creation of resumes to only students but once they are created, they are only accessable in the content-management section of administer menu.

I'm not exactly sure where to go from here but I need to make these resumes accessable some how.

I appreciate your help as I am lost without this community

Thanks Drupalers,

-Derrick

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

shanefjordan’s picture

shanefjordan commented

You could probably create a view to list out resumes created by based on the user's uid. Then, give users access to that view and add it to a menu item so they can navigate to it. You would also be able to create a listing of resumes for the Staff and Admins to view/edit all resumes. You could add exposed filters to your view, so they can narrow down the resumes they are looking at. You could probably give a similar view to Employers, so that they could filter through resumes (possible only looking a specific major, if this is one of your CCK fields).

You would want to set it up so that anonymous and authenticate users did not have permission to access content. At least I am guessing that. You probably do not want to allow everyone to view everyone elses resume.

- Shane

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derricko commented

I'm having a TON of trouble with views.

Is version 6.x-2.0-rc3 good for this?

shanefjordan’s picture

shanefjordan commented

It should be, it just takes some practice and patience. Read through some of the documentation and just try one piece of it at a time. Build a simple view, then go ahead and try to add additional filters/sorts/etc. I cannot comment too much about how to use it for 6.x, I'm currently using 5.x

- Shane

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derricko commented

You were right about the views, it just took some digging and I was able to create a view that was capable of assigning the appropriate permissions. I placed a link to the video tutorial that helped me in another comment post under this topic.

I'm am so thrilled that this part is over with. Now its onto theme-ing ... (*shutters*)

but first... ** HIGH FIVE **

:)

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dnaromance commented

Hi,

There are only two version available. One recommended for 6.x, IF you're using Drupal 6.x; and another recommended for 5.x, IF you're using Drupal 5.x.

Does this helps? So you just have to check out your drupal version. But I think you're using 6.x right? And never forgotten to always read the documentation of the module, and readme.txt file included in the module.

Hope this really helps :)

Best regards,
kailoon

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derricko commented

Hello,

Yup I'm running 6.x Views on 6.x Drupal.

I looked up a video tutorial on Views 5.x and Unfortunately it's completely different from 6.x

... and the readme.txt file is useless.

it only states the following

"

// $Id: README.txt,v 1.25 2007/08/12 06:52:14 merlinofchaos Exp $

This is a rewrite of the Views module for Drupal 6. As of the above date,
it's still in the very early stages.

"

not very helpful. le sigh.

do you think I could install the 5.x version on drupal 6.x?

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dnaromance commented

Hi,

I really have to apologize that I don't have enough ability to help you on this.

I think you probably can't install Views 5.x on 6.x! I'm very not sure it will works properly.

If not mistaken, yous is Views2, so you have to dig the whole Drupal community to find the Views2 documentation, and API also.

Believe me, everything must has a way to do it with Drupal!

I also spent kinda lot's of time to explore Views, so now I get what I want :)

Best regards,
kailoon

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dnaromance commented

Hi,

Same. I used Job Search, CCK, and Views these three modules work perfect.

With Job Search, it's already come with a core job function, just it's not been polish.

With CCK, you can add and edit custom field, like upload resume, full name, and etc.

With Views, you can make a display for that. E.g., Resume listed all resumes, My job application, My posted jobs and many more.

Spend some time look into these three modules, and that will make you a drupaller! :)

Best regards,
kailoon

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shanefjordan commented

The Job Search module does not look as though it has been developed for 6.x as of this time.

- Shane

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dnaromance commented

Hi,

Yup, Shane you're right. I mistakenly didn't notice it's using 6.x.

I'm currently using 5.x just because I need Job Search module, lastime I used to roll back cause initially I'm using 6.x.

Now I'm happy with my Job Search, CCK, and Views combo, it works perfect!

Cheers :)

Best regards,
kailoon

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derricko commented

say, do you guys think I should roll back to the 5.x version of drupal?

:)

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dnaromance commented

Hi,

What I can say is it's always depends. It depends on your environments, your needs, are you hosting your very own site? Or it's for your company? Or your client company?

For me, it's just because I'm running a small job portal, so I definitely need the Job Search module. And most the module that I need I can simply found here.

For the future, It's definitely going to be 6.x and might be 7.x later this year or next year!

I'm not sure in the future I might need to upgrade my site to 6.x also! Not sure...

No matter how, I'm always here to landing my helping hand and give my humble suggestion :)

Best regards,
kailoon

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derricko commented

WooHoo!

Okay, i found a great video tutorial here: http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/new-features-in-views2/play

The narrator is a little slow to start, but the information is worth the wait.

It looks like I'm on my way to getting this view made.

Thanks for you help. We'll see if I can accomplish the rest of my goals once I have completed this tutorial.