By itowler on

I am looking to add some more functionality to our groups website, and I am not sure what the best module or group of modules is for this.

Here is what I would like to do:

Our Group has Committee's and once a quarter, and at the end of the year, each committee needs to submit a report of their activities. Each of the Committee's reports will follow a similar layout. The report will contain a few standard fields (date, committee name, chairmen etc...) but most of the report will be focused on a written paragraph or more that the chairmen composes. Some reports may have images that need to be included (FCKEditor is already in use on the site). I would like to be able to have the committee chairmen sign-in and submit their report online, and then have the report converted into a pdf file that gets posted at a location on the site. I can do the post of the report manually if needed, but it would be great to have it done "automagically".

I have looked at the following modules :

CCK: Problem is I do not want every report to be a node....
Webform: Not sure this will work for me.... can you have a big text portion?

Then How do I get the submitted report turned into a PDF file?

Any suggestions on workflow / modules to use would be great...

Ian
www.marylandsar.org

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Comments

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nevets commented

Not sure why you need them converted to PDF but that requirement makes me think people in general should be able to view the report.

In which case I would use CCK to make a content type that represents a report, makes it easy to create, can be edited and is viewable (last two are general not true for webform).

If you want people to be able to download a PDF version you might try the Printer, e-mail and PDF versions module.

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itowler commented

You are correct in that they should be able to be viewed, but once submitted, I do not want people to be able to edit them. The more I think about it, it does seem like CCK is the best way to go. I could then use Contemplate to "theme" the reports / node and Printer, email, PDF versions module so that people could get a PDF version, and Finally Views to organize the reports for people to browse them...

Does that seem like a logical process?

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nevets commented

That seems like a logical process and you do not need to grant people the ability to edit a report.