Posted by flickerfly on September 22, 2008 at 12:05am
Has anyone used Drupal in an HR or Personnel database sort of scenario? I imagine that this would stretch the profile area or would mean some heavy CCK work. I'm thinking about this sort of application internally at an organization I work with as we track a lot of non-standard information due to the nature of our work and would appreciate your thoughts.
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Check out CiviCRM
Check out CiviCRM. While it has more features than you need, it also has a full set of tracking features for personnel.
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flexibility?
How flexible is CiviCRM in relation to the information you track on personnel? Can I add CCK fields to this stuff? I want to track things like full education history; schools attended, degrees received along with family history language skills, job history initial contact, various job related travel things like this.
More features than I need means a usability problem. If I have to train users to ignore something or theme it out of the picture, that's annoying and bound to adversely affect the user who will spend far more time on the system than I once I've set it up. I understand themeing CiviCRM means learning a different theme system too (Smarty I think).
CiviCRM is meant to be a lot of things, but isn't this like using a sledge hammer to drive a 10-penny nail? I don't go out and buy a Mac simply because I want to write letters. If all I wanted to do was write letters, an old-school word processor would be sufficient, and far less expensive. In the case of the nail, it probably would work, but I'd risk taking out the 2x4 I'm driving the nail into and bringing the roof down around my ankles. I'd like to avoid that. :-)
Anyway, I'm just saying it seems like an odd fit.
civicrm custom data...
one can use civicrm custom data (groups and fields) to store information related to educational and professional timeline for a civicrm contact.
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9307
i'm not sure if one can import a cck and map it to a particular civicrm contact.
but if you plan on using cck, one can use user reference field for the cck and then provide a full blown cck for the drupal user.
rgd.
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