[support] Report from an arbitrary database

[Metzler, David]

I'm not sure what you're expecting drupal to do vs. your online
application.  But if you need to produce a report from an arbitrary
database, with the context of a drupal site (as your subject suggests),
you might consider giving http://drupal.org/project/forena a try. 

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of prothero
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:56 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Report from an arbitrary database


I have an online application for which I will sell various forms of a
license to use it. An individual can purchase a license for $xx, or a
license for some number of users at $yy, for a high school or college
class. What is the best way to set this up? 

I need to keep track of the number of individual users that access a
particular license and limit users to the number that was purchased. A
person/teacher could buy a license and get a license code delivered by
email. The license code would be distributed to students, who would log
in to a "Class" and get access to the page with the application, if they
enter the correct license code. I would need to also get some identifier
from the student, like her email address and name. I'd like to avoid
having a large number of individual student accounts, so perhaps there
would be only one account per class. All students would log in to the
"class" account. Even nicer, the teacher who buys the license would get
an automatic account created, with name of the class as the user and
license code as the password. The student would then have to enter an
email address to get to the application page, if the student has
previously logged in, or if the number of licenses had not been
exceeded.

I'd appreciate any suggestions of modules or techniques that would
support this need. I'm not a module developer, so pre-built modules are
preferable. But, I'm not afraid of using jQuery to do some of the
specialized code.

Thanks for any ideas. I use Drupal 6.20 
Bill


William A. Prothero

http://earthednet.org/




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