By seandavi on

I am new to drupal, but have successfully built a themed intranet complete with forums, ldap integration, and feed content in just a day or so! Amazing software!

I would like to maintain a list of software packages for handling biological data. There are a few pieces of information that I want to capture:

  • Package name
  • URL
  • Contact person

I assume that the best way to do this is to use a custom content type? Of course, I will want to categorize the software by use, language, OS, commercial/noncommercial, but I think this is straightforward with standard taxonomy tools. What I am looking for is some guidance about how to have users interact with these types of objects, such as creating new software nodes, getting lists of software packages in a flexible way, and having users be able to drill down to get software that matches their needs. Any suggestions on where to go for documentation or examples?

Thanks,
Sean
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http://watson.nci.nih.gov/~sdavis

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WorldFallz commented

Yep, create a custom content type with the fields you want then use the http://drupal.org/project/views module to create various listings of these nodes. You can also use 'exposed filters' with the views to create custom searches for users to interact with.

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seandavi commented

I was missing the exposed filters part. That sounds like what I need.

Thanks,
Sean