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By gregi30 on
I hope this does not anger anyone, but I’ll ask anyway.
I have been away from programming for about 10 yrs now, I did program in C, VB for many years as my first few jobs out of school. I started looking into putting up some web pages and came across this amazing product. I also must take my hat off to the community; you guys are truly an example of what a web community should be like.
I installed all the relevant files and have started to create pages without much effort. I have even started to pick up PHP.
My question to the group is, can drupal create pages where the content is user selected from searchable data. For example, I would have all employees’ names in one of the sidebars. I can search the employee names by certain criteria, last name, DOB, salary….then be able to select and drag certain employees to the main content of the page, format for printing and save the report. I understand that anything is possible with this great product, but is Drupal the optimal product for such a site?
I tried searching for the info, but was not able to find much. Again, I hope this does not anger anyone. Thanks in advance for your replies.
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In other words, you want to
In other words, you want to store some structured data of your own, say for "Employees", and for each "Employee", you want to store data in fields of your own choosing? Like "SSN", "Hire Date", "Rate", "Title", etc.?
You'd like to be able to enter Employees, and for each one, populate the fields you've defined?
Check out CCK (Content Creation Kit) and the Views modules. CCK will allow you to create your own custom content types (i.e., an "Employee" and define the data fields for that type), and Views will allow you to create lists of that content type to be displayed in a block (as you describe) or in the main content area. You're likely to also need some custom theming for your "Employee" content type so that the fields and data display as you like.
--keith
thank you very much Keith.
thank you very much Keith.
Still very unclear, please help. Thanks.
Hi Everyone,
I‘m still unclear if Drupal has the capabilities that I need. Please help. Here is what I need to build
[Dropdown]........[Dropdown]...........[Dropdown]
Region...............Department...........Last Name
So the user would select the desired employee via the above dropdown boxes. The desired employee’s data would now be displayed in the right sidebar.
[Right Sidebar]
Employee
Johnson
SS#
Title
Salary
Revenue
Rank
More data……
So I would like to select the info that I need from the right sidebar and drag the info over to the main content page, add other info to the page (info that is not in the right sidebar, user defined) and style it by adding headers, footers, titles, bullet points….. save the report and either print it or email it.
Also, the employee database is quite large and dynamic so the user should be able to add employees. Also, the employee info is stored in a database, so both the dropdown boxes and the right sidebar need to be populated from a database and not created manually like the taxonomy.
Thanks again for your help.
The first part can be done
The first part can be done with views. They are called exposed filters. Getting the content to the sidebar is possible but requires some custom code.
The second part (dragging and dropping information) is not built into any CMS that I am aware of. This would require some complex javascript solution. I have seen similar but nothing that would be considered standard in any CMS. It can be done in drupal but would be an fairly intensive project IMO.
gforce301, thanks very much.
gforce301, thanks very much. I guess I have to search for something else.