Looks like it's been a while since anyone has posted here, so I hope there are enough of you around to help :)
I am looking at RedHen for a site I am now working on for a local Chamber of Commerce. I am having trouble wrapping my head around how to achieve what I need.
They have levels of membership and occasional event that would need to have payment options. And then I would need to present member organizations by category for residents to see.
So the membership levels would be like:
Classic Member
1 to 5 Employees
6 to 10 employees
11 to 24 employees
25+ employees
Bronze
(same break downs)
Silve
(same)
Gold
(same)
And of course, they are all priced differently.
So then if I create a taxonomy for all of the above, I should be able to create a view to see the members. But in my experiments thusfar, I have not been successful.
I am looking to achieve something like this: http://www.wheatonchamber.com/directory
Then I need to learn how to connect this with Commerce, which is new to me as well. I have been an Ubercart guy for a long time. But Commerce is quite different.
So any pointers or guidance would be very appreciated.
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Hey samgreco, sounds like
Hey samgreco, sounds like you've got a pretty complicated little set of needs. My general outline of how to set this up would be:
Redhen Contacts to represent your members, tied to Users using Redhen's configuration options if they need to log in to the site.
Redhen Orgs for your Member Organizations, connected to Contacts using Redhen Relation.
Redhen Memberships can be attached to Orgs, and pass the membership benefits on to the Contacts connected to those Orgs, including User Roles if needed.
Commerce is it's own game, and there's lots of documentation out there. The trick with Commerce is to wrap your head around Line Items, Line Item Types, Products, Product Types, and how important Rules are to the whole process, including customizing it.
The Entity Registration module 2.x branch works great with Redhen Contacts, and the Registration Commerce module is great for a simple relationship between Registrations and paying for them.
As far as paid Redhen Memberships, the easiest thing to do is to create a custom "Membership" product type with a field for the type of Membership you want to create, then use a Rule to auto-generate one of those Memberships on checkout if the cart contains a "Membership Product". This is similar to how Registration Commerce triggers the state change on a registration, and will require some code. You can create on Product Type for Membership, then one Product of that type for each variation of Membership, and set a different price for each. Just base the Membership you create off of the selection.
Anyway, that's how I'd do it!
So should redhen and commerce
So should redhen and commerce reside in the same server?
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I haven't done a
I haven't done a RedHen/Commerce site but I have done some Drupal Commerce sites and yes, the goal would be to have a consolidated site with CMS/CRM and Commerce integrated.
A brick wall
I seem to have hit that brick wall.
I have created Contacts, Organizations (member companies), but not yet created Members. I have created the membership types, just haven't connected them to the Orgs yet.
So now I am trying to create a "Chamber Members" page (views) that anonymous users can see, with the Categories (terms) to weed through to find types of companies. I have tried creating views, but cannot seem to link the vocabluary/terms that I have as a field in my Org type, to the view as a contextual field. And if I use Organization as my Views type to start, I can't add anything in Relationships in Views.
I am looking to create something like this: http://business.villaparkchamber.org/list/ (which is actually the site I am replacing).
Anyone have any insight that could give me the kick in the pants that I need?