Drupal the best solution?
nepalchildren - December 15, 2009 - 00:48
Our non-profit has been looking for a system to keep track of our student and their applications for scholarship (50-60 per year). Currently, we send the doc files to the webmaster and he uploads it in a secure web folder. I have been looking into Drupal and debating if it meets our needs. We are not using Drupal as a CMS but I wanted to check if anyone has any suggestions on how we can use it for student applications.
Thanks in advance.
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You don't really provide any details with which to make a recommendation, but drupal can either upload and store the applications the way you current method works, or you could create the applications right in drupal and do all sort of advanced workflow processing.
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Dear WorldFallz, Thanks for
Dear WorldFallz,
Thanks for your response. We receive many applications in the form of docs, pdf, images etc and currently it is a multi-layered process and has to pass through 4-5 people to get to the webmaster before it gets uploaded. After the file is uploaded, the webmaster sends out the URL where the file has been stored for eg: www.domain.com/applications/new. This directory is password protected and everyone needing to access the file uses the same password.
Ideally, what I would like is a wiki like structure where the autorized members can upload and edit the content. We already use Drupal for CiviCRM and knowing how powerful Drupal is I know there must be a way. However, as a novice user, I do not know where to start. The default installation lets me create a content, page, story etc but I am not sure how to go about managing this workflow.
Thanks!
"drupal can either upload and
"drupal can either upload and store the applications the way you current method works, or you could create the applications right in drupal and do all sort of advanced workflow processing."
- It would be great if you could give me some pointers on where to start looking. I have looked and this is definitely not achievable through the default installation.
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If you want to create the forms right in drupal, you'll need to create an "application" (or whatever you want to call it) custom content type, add the cck module, and then add whatever cck fields you want on the application content type.
To pursue the uploading and attaching of existing documents, enable the core upload module, then enable file attachments on any content type (or create a new content type just for the attachments).
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