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By DickWhitman on
Any insight on my question/query would be much appreciated.
I want to create a CRM, and I want to know if Drupal can help me do that. I want to be able to build a Customer Relationship management tool like Salesforce.com, however, I don’t want this tool to focus on sales. I want this tool to be able to focus on an individual’s personal life.
So Instead of a Customer Relationship management tool, I want to create a Dating Relationship Management tool. This in a way would be an individual’s digital black book. That will allow anybody to be able to manage their dating/social life, with the ability for data and field tracking. The ability to add content about the individuals they are pursuing. This tool would allow for pop up reminders and fields for data entry. This tool would also measure tasks completed and success rates all under the basis of strategy and probability.
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Yes
I don't see anything here that isn't impossible.
To summarize, you basically want to create a personal relationship tracking site. A user can create new contacts, tasks (dates, exercise program?, etc...) with various meta data fields. I'm not sure if you mean that users can create dates/relationships/schedules relating to other users, or manage an independent list of contacts separate from other users.
You'll probably want CCK, date, views, notification(?). It's going to require knowledge on how to create various fields in CCK and views similar to say the issue queue here on drupal.org.
Thank You
I'm a total end user when it comes to CRM's... So forgive me for asking what CCK is? And thanks again for your answer... I appreciate it!
Previous link
The link that was in the previous post was to the project page for CCK. Basically, it allows you to add additional fields to your content such as arbitrary text or select input fields. Or going as far as to have a date, location, file, or image field.
CiviCRM?
Have you tried to look into CiviCRM module for Drupal? It might be just what are you looking for.
I don't recall the name of
I don't recall the name of the contribs but there are some modules that store user data in nodes which perhaps might enable you to use nodereference to create "matches" or connections between two users. For example, your users could create a list of compatible matches from the available users. This would also enable you to create Views with exposed filters that will enable your users to select "matches" based upon certain personal attributes. You will need CCK for this solution as well. I haven't thought this through and therefore my logic may contain a hairbrain quotient. ;-)