By getagb on

Hey,

Will Drupal do what I'm looking to do?

I have an office with about 300 people in it.

I would like to have
1. a computer displaying a photo slideshow of employees with a short bio of them. (possibly a QuickTime stream)
2. a website where employees can browse the photos and bios, searchable by name.

I would like it to be very easy to add/remove employees (i.e., a content type of "Employee" with Photo, Name, and Bio fields).

I thought maybe Drupal and some combination of modules could work together to do something like this. Can they?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

You can easily do this with core drupal plus views (imo you don't even need quicktime, there's lots of slick jquery slideshow modules).

For basic profiles (name, photo, basic fields) you can use the core profile module. For more advanced profiles you can use the content_profile module. This assumes employees are also registered users of the site. If that's not the case (and never will be), you can use cck to create a content type for 'employees'.

getagb’s picture

getagb commented

I liked the idea of QuickTime because I would be able to run that at full screen. Is there a slideshow module you recommend for running at full screen?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

i don't know of any offhand that have a full screen option, but I would think you could set it up with some theming and/or using large pictures.

cwgriesel’s picture

cwgriesel commented

The Galleria slideshow has a full-screen option available as a paid theme, around $30. It can be integrated into drupal using "Views Slideshow: Galleria" or the "Galleria" module.