By mornhy on

I currently have an area of my site which shows any jobs that are available, using CCK and Views. At present I simply use attachments to add things like job description, equal opportunities monitoring form and job application, which users obviously then have to complete and post/email back. I would like to introduce something that will enable people to simply click a button to enter an online application system, but I'm not sure how to go about implementing it.

I've looked at some forum topics and the one for CiviSchool applications (http://groups.drupal.org/node/82434 and http://civicrm.org/blogs/deepak/civischool-application-form-admissions, which looked quite exciting) and their online admissions application looked interesting. I'd like people to be able to save as they complete each section of the application before proceeding to the next section and then submit the application at the end.

There have been forum topics that talked about using webforms, workflow and SSL certificates, but I haven't found anything that actually tackles how someone could achieve this from scratch. I do have the webform and workflow modules but the former seems a bit 'clunky' for what I want to do (this may be my fault) and I'm not sure I've got the hang of workflow yet. some have mention the form API and even AJAX, but I'm not sure where to start. All the books I've got that look at this area presume that people will be submitting CV's rather than an online application form - we don't accept CV's submitted on their own.

I'd be grateful, as ever, if anyone could point me in the right direction and give me any tips.

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mornhy commented

I've been looking at the subform module (http://drupal.org/project/subform) as part of a solution for dealing with creating an online job application form, but I noticed that this module is not available for version 6 of Drupal. Can anyone suggest a compatible module that I can use?

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lobo commented

check:

http://civicrm.org/blogs/colemanw/pushing-envelope-civicase

lobo

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mornhy commented

thanks lobo, I will check it out. It looks like the same people that did the Civischool application and it does mention a couple of modules that I'd not heard of so will see what they are all about.