I don't see any add field option on the content type edit page in any of 3 themes I tried, including Garland. Do I need to have a separate CCK module installed? Isn't the core supposed to have that functionality in Drupal 5?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Flatt</b> <<a href="mailto:drupal@oadaeh.net">drupal@oadaeh.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday May 16 2007 8:53 am, Jean Gazis wrote:<br>> I'm working on a site for a company that delivers organic groceries. On<br>> their (quite rudimentary) existing site (<a href="http://www.urbanorganic.com">
www.urbanorganic.com</a>) they have an<br>> order form that emails to them. I'd eventually like to get them into an<br>> e-commerce setup, but that is not part of the current site revamp project (<br>> <a href="http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com">
http://urbanorganic.jeangazis.com</a>), so for now, I just need to put in place<br>> a form that will email to them.<br>><br>> Is the forms module the best way to go for the ordering?<br><br>I'm not real familiar with this module, so I cannot say.
<br><br>> For new customers,<br>> should I use another form or can I use user profiles?<br><br>You could do that. I have site setup that makes heavy use of the profile<br>module to keep track of employee information. Some of the fields are filled
<br>in at account creation time and some are filled in later. Then I created a<br>few different code snippets that display that information in different ways.<br>However, if you don't want to invest a lot of time and coding at this point,
<br>then you may want to look at doing it slightly differently: you could also<br>add to the profiles the option of using CCK and the Node Family, Node<br>Profile, Usernode set of modules, which would allow additional functionality.
<br>You would still create user profiles, but then you can use any module that<br>makes use of CCK and/or Views and add, change, display that information in<br>other ways. See the very recent thread where Larry talks about displaying
<br>musicians using CCK and Views for ideas.<br><br>> I want to move them<br>> in the direction of a customer community, so I'd like the sign up for the<br>> service and the site to be the same.<br><br>That should be totally possible, even if you simply use a basic checkbox on
<br>registration to sign people up.<br><br>> I want to set up a recipe swap forum/area. There's a recipe module, but no<br>> info on its features. I started to create a custom content type, but I am<br>> missing something - a fields module? Where do I do more than give it a name
<br>> and a title field? I feel dumb! I want this to be as simple for the end<br>> users as possible.<br><br>When you edit a content type, there is a tab labeled "Add field", usually up<br>near the title. The path is:
<br>admin/content/types/<name-of-content-type>/add_field<br><br>> The theme I'm using is Golden Hour which I like a lot.<br><br>I'm not familiar with the theme, but maybe it's not showing the tabs. If
<br>that's the case, you may want to specify a different administrative theme at:<br>admin/settings/admin<br><br>--<br>Jason Flatt<br><a href="http://www.oadaeh.net/">http://www.oadaeh.net/</a><br>Father of Six: <a href="http://www.flattfamily.com/">
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