[support] Membership site question

[Christopher M. Jones]

So are these usernodes associated with taxonomy terms? Is that how you 
are 'categorizing' these users?

What do they do once they are on the site? Is this a site for 
collaboration on projects? Any social networking involved? Or is it just 
getting access to privileged content?

Bob Morse wrote:
> Thanks, Christopher. Listing by categories simply means chamber members 
> are displayed under categories of types of business.
> So we have a custom search that groups businesses by category and each 
> category can be linked to so you can display only one category.
> 
> Will look at your suggestions.
> 
> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
>> Where online payments are involved, you might take a look at Ubercart. 
>> There's a module included that associates a role with a product, so that 
>> any user purchasing the product is promoted to the associated role. So a 
>> user could start out as a registered user, or become registered through 
>> the normal checkout process, and then be given fuller access once the 
>> payment is processed.
>>
>> As for your third site, I'm not sure. Too much information missing here. 
>> What do you mean by "categories"? Sounds like you might be interested in 
>> og. You can explore from there what modules are available for 
>> customizing registration forms. You also could use "node profile" to 
>> create profiles as CCK types, including computed fields that would 
>> generate the 'what you would pay' info.
>>
>> Bob Morse wrote:
>>   
>>> This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What 
>>> module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that 
>>> allows people to join the organization. I have two instances  now, one 
>>> where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one 
>>> I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and 
>>> neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's 
>>> a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want 
>>> to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up 
>>> on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join 
>>> through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form 
>>> that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). 
>>> We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot 
>>> more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. 
>>> And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like 
>>> suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!
>>>     
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