[support] College Website Migrating to Drupal

[Shyamala Rajaram]

Hi,

 

The below modules should help.

 

 

Organic Groups: http://drupal.org/project/og

Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have
subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate
amongst themselves. They do so by posting the usual node types: blog, story,
page, etc. A block is shown on the group home page which facilitates these
posts. The block also provides summary information about the group.

Groups may be selective or not. Selective groups require approval in order
to become a member, or even invitation -only groups. There are lots of
preferences to configure groups as you need.

Groups get their own theme, language, taxonomy, and so on. Integrates well
and depends upon Views module

Views: http://drupal.org/project/views

This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough
information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the
results. It has four modes, plus a special mode, and provides an impressive
amount of functionality from these modes.

 and CCK: http://drupal.org/project/cck

 

CCK, will help us create custom node types.

 

 

 

Shyamala

Netlink <http://www.netlinkindia.com/>  Technologies Limited

http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Jai
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:19 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] College Website Migrating to Drupal

 

Hi, 

I am in process of transforming my college's website from old dead static
page site to drupal powered website. These are the features I am thinking to
implement. 

1. Each student of the college could have his own homepage on college's
domain. As if http://collegedomain/studentpages/studentname. The student
should have control on that page only. Under his homepage tree, he should be
able to create hierarchy of content. i.e. child nodes under his home page. 

2. Lecturers and other staff of the college should also have their home page
under the their department's category where they could upload their Resume
etc. Now while showing a listing of computer science faculty members, that
list could be fetched  dynamically from the content provided by them on
their pages. 

3. In the same way, each society of the college should have their home page.
It will be having same capabilities as user pages. e.g. their home pages and
ability to create other nodes as child of the home page.

4. There should be a group page for each society. Only the members of that
society ( e.g. members of the tech club in our college) should be able to
subscribe to that group. They could discuss their issues on the group forum.


5. I would like to fetch content dynamically from pages named Latest News
and Upcoming Events to two different blocks on the front page. The block
which is containing latest news will have 5 news stories, then each news
story title should feature a small image along with it.

6. Different permissions will be defined for students, lecturers, community,
library admin and management accounts. 

I would like to know about the modules needed for these tasks or other
resources which will be helpful here. Right now, I am experimenting with CCK
and Views and they look to be quite important for implementation of some of
the tasks. 

Thanks, 

-Jai

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