[support] Online Journal / e-Portfolio

[Cog Rusty]

Check also the bookexpand module. According to its description, you
can restrict where users can add child pages, by user, by role, or by
OG.

http://drupal.org/project/bookexpand



On 10/18/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> Thanks! Great info. I didn't know about CCK.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
> > Hello, Daniel,
> >
> > Part of the challenge of designing a good portfolio app is that
> > everybody thinks of different things when they think about a portfolio.
> >
> > The UI gets even more complicated if, for example, you want your
> > students to be able to create a custom order for their artifacts --
> >
> > You've gotten some good info in this thread so far, particularly with
> > respect to views and the portfolio page content type -- some additional
> > comments included inline below --
> >
> > Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >> Larry Garfield wrote:
> >>
> >>> Will there always be a one-to-many relationship from user
> >>> to portfolio piece?
> >>>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> - Each pupil will have multiple portfolio pages.
> >> - Each portfolio page will belong to exactly one pupil.
> >>
> >> If two students work on a project together they can each make a separate
> >> page about it.
> >>
> > You might want to look at cck and nodereferences here -- using this
> > functionality, your students could reference one piece of content from
> > within another.
> >>
> >>> If so, just have them create "portfolio piece" nodes, then
> >>> setup a view at user/$arg/portfolio.  $arg is the userid.
> >>> That will then show you all of user 5's portfolio nodes on
> >>> user/5/portfolio, all of user 9's portfolio nodes on
> >>> user/9/portfolio, etc.
> >>>
> > This is created using the views module. However, I would recommend
> > setting the $arg to username instead of userid, as the usernames tend to
> > be more friendly than a number.
> >> That sounds just perfect, but I don't know how to do it. How do the
> >> pupils create a "portfolio piece" node and how do I create a view for
> >> it? Can I create a new content type and call it "portfolio node"? If so,
> >> how?
> > Use CCK and Views. The Views Bonus Pack is also very helpful.
> >
> > http://drupal.org/project/cck
> > http://drupal.org/project/views
> > http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
>
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