Hi there, I need your advice, comments & suggestions!
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I'm admin and my technical skills under par. Drupal Included! I've read on Drupal.org/documentation and tried one or two walkthroughs. Right now, I'm watching the Lynda D7 tutorial vids. But I need professional/experienced help!
I can understand the Basic Page & Article CTs. I was able to make a Home Page, About Us, Contact Us, etc. However, I'm having trouble understanding how I would build relationships in regards to my applications, who sent them, current status, etc.
Would I go ahead and make each application a node? If so, would I have scalability issues? We've already processed close to 1,000,000 applications since opening in 1998!
What other options does Drupal or D Modules gives me?
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Attached is a screenshot of the sample MS Excel Table
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Sounds like you need a
Sounds like you need a workflow system for your applications database. I might be able to help you. I want to contact you but you didn't leave any info how. So could pls send me a message via my contact form in my profile, that would be nice.
Hi Jhef, Thanks for your
Hi Jhef,
Thanks for your reply. I've added my contact details to the post.
Office # is (632) 338-5816 / 5817 & 5818
Ask for Mr. Hernandez
I've looked at some workflow modules and it seems they could help. Anyways I still know very little about Drupal and I guess I'm at a conceptual design phase so expert advice is very much appreciated.
What are your office hours? Perhaps we could meet up to discuss options. Sounds like I need help building an Request For Proposal RFP.
perhaps you can try using CCK
Espero que estos te han ayudado mas o menos. ;)
Hi there, 1-4 sounds like
Hi there,
1-4 sounds like what I've been imagining/thinking. And lots of #4!
But, I'm also thinking, should I consider making a CT for each of my clients; they are only 15 and not growing much? To reduce the node count the query will search when showing the client's info?? Or should I make it by month? Or do I make it by an application's status? These are the conceptual worries I have.
A client will be mainly interested to know about specific "status" like those that are Deficient (requires them to send some missing documentation to finalize the application process) than knowing which are "Processed" (specially if they are more than a month old; this information will probably not be news/important for them). In this last case, a specific search field for input of application id could provide a better solution.
If I were to make only 1 ct for all applications I would hate to have to rely on a single query that searches all my CT "applications" to show only those that I would like to show.
I dont have a big budget to spend of high spec servers...
Sorry, Not sure If I was clear...
One content type for the
One content type for the application forms will probably do the job.
Limit access using taxonomy access module. Make each client as a taxonomy term. Configure the module (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access). read documentation here (http://drupal.org/node/31601).
Or make each client a unique user role. you can test both schemes.
for the "status", the workflow module could probably do the job.
i think you can filter content-type per user-author.
start small, then scale up later.
then, test, test, test....;)
Any Freelancers Interested in
Any Freelancers Interested in this? I'll be attending the meet-up this saturday.
Hello ptyblood, Perhaps, you
Hello ptyblood,
Perhaps, you can make a short presentation on Saturday Meetup listing down the behaviors your expected users (your 15 clients) will do on the planned drupal site. This list could form part of the planned site's specs. This list could be useful to interested freelancers.
Yes, that sounds like a good
Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I have already started a presentation in order to organize my thoughts/requirements. I'll work more on the presentation for it to be ready by Saturday.