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By ggrenet on
Hi!
I'm currently working on a project of transforming a knowledge made of hundreds of powerpoints, word and excel sheets linked together. I don't know who thought this would be a good idea, but it's time we move on to a real content management system such as Drupal. While putting the Words document and even the excel sheets into Drupal seems easy enough, there is one feature of power point I don't know how to "emulate" : diagrams and schemas. In this KB, we have many flowcharts or road maps in which you can click on a given element to go to another "page" (another Word, Excel or PowerPoint) and get more information.
How can you do that in Drupal? I know there are commercial tools for this kind of needs such as ISIMAN (http://www.keyword.fr/sitekeyw/GB/html/portail.html), but the whole point of the project is to make this for the lowest possible cost, otherwise this MS Office Madness will go on for a little while longer. Specifically, is there some kind of CCK module or something similar in which I can add to my "posts" some clickable diagram/schema/flowcharts drawn within Drupal?
Thank you very much in advance,
Guillaume
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'Clickable' diagrams is not really a drupal thing-- it's part of standard HTML. They're called 'image maps' and they work just fine with drupal.
My main site has many interactive flowcharts-- to create them I use the http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor module with an image map plugin and my own http://drupal.org/project/jq_maphilight module which I created to make image map hyperlinks highlight when hovered.
You can also just enter the appropriate HTML for the image maps directly into your drupal pages-- but be sure to use the 'full html' input format or add the image map tags to the allowed tags whitelist for the 'filtered html' input format.