By dvasquez on

Hello people,

I am installing a drupal for a Church, They want to have their members listed on a web soft, but i don't know what´s better...
to Create Content with CCK fields for each person in the church, or register them as users with an account.

What you suggest me?

The idea is not that users acces to the web, the idea is to list them in Views, only that.

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atheneus’s picture

atheneus commented

If it's just a directory of people and contacts and there is no need for a login then simply create a content type with CCK fields. If you need to provide logins at a later date the option is still open to you, and you can link logins to your custom content type as user profiles.

socceronly’s picture

socceronly commented

You could also look at CiviCRM.

It is pretty much designed to do what you want, and you get mailings lists, contribution system....ect..

It is a plug in for Drupal.

zahor’s picture

zahor commented

I second what socceronly said and the good thing about using Civicrm for the members, is that if in the future someone decided they wanted users to log in, their accounts would be synced. Civicrm would also allow members to be imported from excel (or exported).

dvasquez’s picture

dvasquez commented

can i convert content type to user with profiles?

atheneus’s picture

atheneus commented

I would advise against using CiviCRM - It's a great CRM, but unless you need the full power of a CRM it's a lot of work and learning curve. Keep things simple is always best, particularly if you are unfamiliar with all the technologies. I doubt a church group can really benefit significantly from a CRM.

To answer your question. In Drupal 'user' is not a content type, it is a user record intended for logins. You can enhance the user object by adding profile fields, but it still isn't a content type. For example a user URL will have /user/... and a content type will have /node/...

If what you need is a content type and not a login, then use a content type. It will save you hours of aggravation down the road.