By skintigh on

I am new to CMSes, and I'm not sure what the terminology I should be using is, but in other CMSes the term for the type of form I want is a "tracker."

What I want to do it make many pages linked to an online DB that users can enter data into, save, update, share if they choose, etc, for example in the following format:

Label check_box select_box text_box
Label check_box select_box text_box
Label check_box select_box text_box
...dozens more lines...

Can Drupal do something like this? And just as important, is this difficult to do in Drupal, and is there a way an admin could allow users to make additional pages?

Thanks in advance!

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WorldFallz commented

Yes drupal can do this no problem-- whether or not it's difficult is a relative thing and almost impossible to answer. And yes, you can give users permission to create new pages.

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skintigh commented

Really!?! So, I can have tons of pages with tons of check boxes and fields, and each user can enter his personal data, and go back and edit it, and share it, etc?

I ask because I have looked at soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many platforms. The closest I've come is Tikiwiki which can do the data but not in any format I want (except maybe with templates of some sort) and Joomla which can do the format but you have to be a crazy DB hacker to make the data work.

I may be a new Drupal fan/user.

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WorldFallz commented

If I understand you correctly, yes. If you don't need individual permissions for each line item you can do it with a multigroup fieldset with cck v3 (still in dev but works great) or with nodereferences (part of cck) and views_attach if you need each line item to have it's own permissions.