We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, December 11th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via Skype and Join.me):
Orlando - Debra Wilson, Patricia Mathews
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64, Brian Wagner, Carlos Kosloff and me @hectoriribarne
This month I talked about using different profiles for your Drupal sites. An example is a job site with employees and employers. The way the site looks to each type of user is different. If you want to have fields that only apply to one user and not another, then using the Drupal Profile2 module (along with profile2_regpath) is the way to go.
Since the site build will be on the workflow of each user, a Data model is a good way to go. Hector (http://iribarne.com) used the free yEd graph editor (http://www.yworks.com/en/index.html) is a good way to go. It runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. The diagram displays the relationships between entities, including one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many. An entity relationship diagram is a great way to flush out hidden relationships.
The presentation moved on to talking about gathering data during registration of each user type, and how that data is being stored in the database (i.e. separate field tables in the database). We also covered configuration settings for profile2 and profile2_regpath, including permissions for profile2.
We had two remote participants via Skype/Join.me and four in the meeting room.
To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, go to our website: http://BrowardDrupal.org
You can also check us out on Twitter: @BrowardDrupal
--Hector