By uk_1970 on

Hi,

I've been asked to build a Abstract Review web application. Here is the basic requirement. The application must have 3 types of user levels:

Submitters - only submits abstracts for review. This web form can be involved encompassing many fields(including abstract authors, abstract references, footnotes...).

Reviewers - Will review abstracts posted by Submitters and make recommendations which the submitter will make changes
Editors - will make any final necessary edits at which point it gets published and becomes public.

Once the Abstracts is published ends users will be able to search the entire web application.

I know that the user levels can be accomplished using Drupal User Roles: Submitter, Reviewer, and Editor. But I am not sure if linking them all together will be easy or doable.

I watched segments of the Lullabot Learning CCK for Drupal video (where they build a job application cck) and while watching video and idea popped in my head of accomplishing this in drupal rather then coding it in php/mysql....

Now the question is, is this possible in Drupal? If so, is there an example flowing around?

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

UK user.

P.S. You can blame the Lullabot Learning CCK for Drupal video for this. :)

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Yep-- it can be done. For a recent example see http://drupal.org/node/747610. They appear to use a great deal of custom code based on their specific use case, but you can get pretty far with the cck, views, rules and/or workflow modules.

uk_1970’s picture

uk_1970 commented

excellent! Thank you.

Anyone else has any thoughts?

nadeemkotwal’s picture

nadeemkotwal commented

why reinvent the wheel?
This is what you are looking for...
Conference Module
the module has very minor bugs which you can fix by going through the pending issues of the module.
Will be implimenting it for a peer reviewed journal BJMP.org

uk_1970’s picture

uk_1970 commented

I haven't tried yet but looks like this module does exactly what I need.

Thank you so much...i really appreciate it. In notice its in Beta, is safe to use it in production?

uk_1970’s picture

uk_1970 commented

Hi nadeemkotwal.

Have you used the Conference Module? I am trying to post a Paper but it insists on having a file Uploaded.
I keep getting this message

"Please attach the abstract as a doc / pdf"

.

I need to either disable or remove the file upload requirement. I can't find a way to do this.

To get it to work it forced me to enable the Upload module. But in my case I do not need to upload feature. I would like to make it as optional rather then a required field.

How can I do this.

Thank you.

uk

--- update ---
i was looking into the conference_pager.cck and conference_review.cck files and found a "upload" variable set to 1. Will changing 'upload' => '0' allow me to bypass the upload requirement? 

 .....
        'title_label' => 'Title',
        'body_label' => 'Body',
        'min_word_count' => '0',
        'help' => '',
        'node_options' => 
        array (
          'status' => true,
          'promote' => false,
          'sticky' => false,
          'revision' => false,
        ),
        'upload' => '1',
        ....lot more.