[support] Membership site question

[Bob Morse]

I have sort of muddled this discussion by confusing the current site we 
are working on and trying to find a simple solution for new, potential 
sites going forward. That's really my goal. Sorry for the confusion.

So far, while all suggestions are fine, they are not simple and I guess 
that's what's surprising to me. Maybe there is a need for one or two 
modules that do what we want without making any code modifications.

As for the current site, their needs for users are minimal so the 
membership list is not even tied to site membership at the moment. They 
are categorized by a field in CCK.

Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> 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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