Hello,
I'm finding that I need some guidance on something I am trying to pull off.
I currently run a business school website that I am trying to convert over to Drupal. I am trying to replicate the functionality of a faculty/staff directory:
Basically, I have some filter options on the left, and a list of people (with links to their bio page) on the right. I have researched things like the Profile Plus, Profile Search, and Site User list modules. I've read a little bit on how I could do this with Views. But I'm just not sure the right direction to take to get the functionality that best resembles that page.
Does anyone have some advice on the following approaches?
1. Just use one of the modules (Profile Plus or Search, etc)
2. Make users into nodes and filter based on Taxonomy?
3. Is there anyway to use Organic Groups to do this? (ie. faculty group, staff group, phd group, management dept group, marketing dept group, etc and filter by those)
Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Content Profile
This is another module, successor of the Drupal 5 bio module.........http://drupal.org/project/content_profile
You can attach taxonomy terms to the user profiles, once you use one of these modules to treat user profiles as node. Then you can create views and use exposed filters to let the user filter by department, staff, faulty etc.
You can also use organic groups for different departments, but use of og will only be recommended if you want to achieve much more than this particular filter. OG is a very powerful module and can create a mini-website for each group.............if you want to provide that much functionality to each department.
Actually, I do think I could
Actually, I do think I could use Organic Groups for other things such as the mini sites which you mentioned.
I just want to confirm that you can indeed use the groups as filter criteria for Views?
Oh yes!
Yes, you will be able to filter out members of a particular group (and much more) through OG integration with views (it's in the core OG module).
Fabulous! Thank you so much
Fabulous! Thank you so much for your response!