Posted by leavellwd on July 30, 2009 at 6:42pm
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| Project: | Carbon Account |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
I am developing a website for a company that will be selling carbon offsets. I feel your module will be very helpful however it seems to me that it is a little complex for users, especially people that want to quickly input there information and go on about there business. Am I missing something, is there a way to customize it to allow for easy updates.
my second issue is that I need to add a calculator similar to this one http://www.terrapass.com/carbon-footprint-calculator/
I need advise as to what the best ideas to be able to create a program like this would be. I am thinking cck and computed fields, I just have to figure out how to put things together to make it work.
Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated
Thanks in advance
Comments
#1
cck and computed fields is fine for simple carbon emission calculations. From what i have looked at I think you can implement most of the terapass type functionality with cck. This module will not help you.
Meter readings including handling missing or incorrect meter readings gets more more complicated. I think the trick might be deciding what the cck fields are going to be.
One of the big difference between this module and what i think terapass does is that this module is date aware. To make updates easy, you'd probably want to disable dates which isn't possible.
I wasn't aware of CCK when I originally wrote this module. I have thought about doing a simple CCK aware carbon calculator but don't have the time at the moment.
Hope this helps.
#2
Thanks John.
I have figured out how and what php codes to put into cck computed fields to get it to work, however do you know of a module that works with cck that will allow all the actions in a form type setting (similar to terrapass) on a single page instead of having to click the (save) button in order to get the calculation? I hope that makes since.
Also when you do decide to work on a cck type module for this type of project let me know and I will help you out as much as I can.
Thanks for your help
Tony
#3