Hi,
What I am trying to do:
I am creating a site for a small soccer school. The owner is reasonably computer literate, but I would prefer not to expose him to a full set of admin screens.
What he needs is a way to create a new "class" (in the school sense of the word), add students to that class, add some tags to it (i.e., class name, day of week, level). He also needs to be able to easily post to all or subgroups of his students (could be a class, could be all classes on Tuesday)
My thoughts on how to do this are:
Use taxonomy to set these up and create some custom screens for him to manage them all in one place without having to understand Drupal.
My question:
Is this the best way to be going about this?
Are there existing modules I should look at that already cover much of this functionality?
Thanks!
jeff
P.S. - as a complete newbie to the Japan group, is it okay to post English questions there, or do they prefer only Japanese? my reading is okay, but writing in Japanese questions like this one is still a bit of an effort.
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a partial answer to my own question - came up with this info
http://groups.drupal.org/node/21915
Organic Groups is probably
Organic Groups is probably closest to what you're looking for, but it can be a bit tricky to wrap one's head around. It's what's in use here on groups.drupal.org.
The Boise Drupal Guy!
Thanks, Garrett!
This looks like exactly what I need. You probably know better than I how much time you've saved me!
Now just look over the i18n stuff, and I should have all the pieces I need to make a royal bollacksing of my first ever Drupal site :-)
(a simple version of the site is actually live and built with CodeIgniter, but I had originally wanted to use Drupal for all the "module power" it gives us, and so am redo-ing a better version for him once I've learned what I need. Will develop/destroy/try again a few times locally.)
You might want to look at
You might want to look at node reference too. OG is good, but might over complicate things. Node Reference with node reference views is really nice.
How would Node Reference work
How would Node Reference work with regards to the user management aspect of it?
The Boise Drupal Guy!
Check this out
http://nodeone.se/blogg/johan-falk/alternative-solution-to-organic-groups
Johan did a write up on it.
Thanks, Dokuro
Node Access User Reference has virtually zero documentation that's of any use to a newbie, and Node Access Node Reference is the same and comes with the caveat,
"Despite the availability of a beta, this module needs work, a lot of questions have been raised about this module's design in the issue queue, and probably shouldn't be used in production sites."
I found Organic Groups to be very straightforward and easy to understand from the get-go, and plenty of online help to give examples. I think I would suggest recommending that to people unless you are discussing Drupal hacks with experienced Drupal developers :-)
OG is nice, can't wait to use
OG is nice, can't wait to use it in Drupal 7, the last Drupalcon had a good talk about it.
http://www.archive.org/details/GrouptheNewOrganicGroups-BuildingSocialNe...