I am throwing this out in hopes that someone may have already worked on something similar in the past and know of a better way to do it.
I'm working on a project for the SacProNet website that will allow the admin committee to enter member attendance data for each weekly meeting. Using cck, what I have right now, other than the title field, is fields for meeting date, member name (a box with multiple names and more than one can be selected), and status (radio buttons labeled present, absent, & excused). With this approach, since they can only choose one status at a time, they will have to perform the content creation 3 times, once for each status and include all of the members for that status. Also, if they make a mistake on entering a member's status, it can be fixed but it becomes a 2-step process to do so; removing a member from one status and adding the member to another status.
At the very least, it would be nice to have the statuses available on every name line instead of separate.
So far, I've tried adding the table field type, using the views bulk operations, and researched other modules but none of these have given me what I wanted.
Thoughts ??
Comments
Signup module
The Signup module can track attendance. One issue would be that only users who have registered for a particular night would be listed as signed up, but you could always script something with the signup API that would auto-signup users for an event.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestion. We already have the signup module enabled for other events but I'm not seeing an API for drupal 6.
All modules have an API. Just
All modules have an API. Just because they don't publish it or document it, doesn't mean you can't use it.
Look at the module's source and see how it saves signup information to the database, what hooks it uses, etc. Find a function in the source that triggers all that. There's probably a signup_process_signup or similar. Call that and your code will be interacting with the module just like an end user.
Views & Inline
Hi Ronnie,
You can make things appear on a single line with Views. For that, click on Fields and select those you want on the same line. Then those are added with <span> instead of <div>. The only problem is that you cannot easily have multiple lines that way.
Enjoy!
Alexis
Belated thanks for the
Belated thanks for the suggestions. We wanted to avoid custom code on this site so we decided to use what we had but include the multiselect module for the member name field, which was more user-friendly than the normal multiple selection of names within a box.