CCK

After reading Hariska2@drupal.org's comment about creating a rudimentary DMS module, I was thinking about wanting just such a thing. (It is part of the reason for establishing this group.)

However, much of the functionality already exists. I want to make sure that if I aid in the creation of a new module for document management that that module doesn't totally overlap existing functionality to much. However, there are some pretty significant improvements that I think could be made. I will commence with suggesting the things that already exist and then consider what is missing.

I maintain the signup.module. This module has long struggled with the problem of how to flexibly define what fields are requested and/or required when a user signs up for something. I might have a slick solution, but I'm not sure if CCK can accomplish what I have in mind.

With 5.x CCK, you can assign any fields you want in whatever groups you need to any node type. My module could allow site admins to define the signup/reply form for any given node type as a specific group of arbitrary CCK fields. This field group would not show up on the node edit form. It would be displayed on the node view page itself, so each user could fill-in, submit, and optionally edit their own signup/reply. All fields would automatically be treated as "multiples" in terms of storage, 1 set of each field's values per user who replies, but displayed as single values for any given user viewing the node. When a user replies, the values of any fields in their reply would have to be associated with their identity (uid for auth users, email for anon).

Any ideas on using the lucene indexing with cck fields, custom searches, and field weighting?

Just curious...

Hello,

I am running Drupal 5.1, and the latest CCK. The documentation for the latest CCK release states that the fieldgroups should be viewable in node output now, but it is still not working. I have to input a large amount of fields for many content types and need the fieldgroup feature to keep it manageable. I also need the fieldgroups to show up in the node. Does any one else have this problem, or any suggestions as to how to tackle this one?

Adding Semantic Web support into CCK

Motivation

I want to add audio to program nodes.
Specifically, each program will have one, maybe more presenter jingles. I want to have these listed on the program page.

But I'm having trouble finding a way to embed audio.
There's the mediafield CCK module, but that doesn't come with any players, and it also means I can't reuse the audio content -- for example, a page listing all jingles.

This is my project proposal for the Summer of Code 2007. Better multiple value handling in CCK is needed and could be useful to a lot of people, so I am interested in having your opinion before I officially submit this project proposal to Google.

Thanks for everyone who turned up at the Tuesday DUG-TO meeting.

Apologies for the equipment malfunction that prevented me from showing more hands on details.

Thanks again to Reg. Charney of HiTechHub for the use of his laptop to get this going.

I will try to write an article on how to create a custom panel in the near future.

As for the presentation, you can get a copy of the presentation here.

Be sure to check the links and resources towards the end.

I write to suggest a Drupal Dojo lesson on setting up Calendar. It is a useful module and a common need, but isn't an intuitive setup "out of the box."