Lightning talk about Bethany Church blood drive

Hi. I did the sign up sheet lightning talk. It was a spur of the moment thing.

Here's what I did. Drupal 6 by the way.

I installed Signup module with Date and Time module as well as Views module.

I created a content type called "Blood Drive" and I also made it a Sign Up node in the Content Type settings.

For each time slot that we had, which was every 15 minutes, I created a node in the blood drive content type. I created them in time order, so they would display in time order.

Each time slot was allowed 8 sign ups before it was closed.

In Views, I created a new view called blooddrive

The basic settings I changed were:

Title: Blood Drive
Style: Grid
Row Style: Node
Items per Page: Unlimited
Header: I put in the paragraph that appears at the top of the page

I also changed the Sort Critera to be Node: Published ASC and Node: Post date ASC

The Filters make it really cool and allows the time slots that are full/closed to dissappear from the view.

Signup Status open/closed True
Node Type: blood drive
Node: Published True

I gave it a Page view and gave it the path blooddrive.

You can view the finished blood drive at http://www.bethanycrc.net/blooddrive

To find out more about the story behind the Tyler Brett Verkaik Memorial Blood Drive please visit:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/ryanandtylerverkaik

Thank you so much for your interest, and I am happy to answer any other questions anyone has. I hope this explanation helps.

Sincerely,

Nicole Bluto

I like to know the details of poeples projects too! Happy to share.