By mat8iou on

I have set up a few Drupal sites & have come up with a need to create simple databases that can be accesses through Drupal. A module may already exist that does this sort of thing, but if so, I haven't found it.

They type of database I'm thinking of would be the sort of simple flat file that could be set up as a table in Excel - but needs to be accessed by lots of people.

One example would be a list of projects - with fields for: Project code, Project name, Project location, Project description, Client name, Other comments....

There are lots of other similar things that I can think of that might be useful - particularly in an intranet / extranet context, that require this sort of thing - e.g. directories of suppliers we use etc. Some of these could be dealt with with an address book such as the one in CiviCRM, but it seems to me that some others are starting to diverge too far from being extra fields in an address book & might be better served by some other module.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this or know of any modules that are available for this task?

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Drupalace-1 commented

If you used CCK to create (using your example) a new Projects node type, with all the fields you require, and then use Views to create the various lists you would want to view...

That would satisfy creation of a simple database. What requirements would remain unmet?

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mat8iou commented

Thanks

I hadn't thought of using CCK for this sort of thing. I'll have a look at it & what it can manage. I have never really used views, so will read up on what they can / can't do.

Thanks again for this suggestion.