Thanks Shyamala...<br><br>Right now I am giving time to the learning curve required by the Views module. Views and CCK look like essential for any web portal with Drupal. According to the knowledge I have, I can figure out that I can easily fetch 5 top stories from the news and events content types. <br>
<br>Organic Groups module looks awesome from managing groups along with permissions. <br><br>Now what I am really looking here is a kind of module that helps me in creation of hierarchical content for each user. e.g. a user creates four content nodes, then each node could have 3 child nodes each. That node could be of any type. Say Video, Gallery Pages, Class Notes, Resume etc. Permissions over each such content created by user is very important. As for example a student should not be able to edit the content created by other student or a society-head of the college.<br>
<br>Also I am looking for a way there so that I could list each user's space with a URL like "<a href="http://collegedomain/studentpages/studentname" target="_blank">http://collegedomain/studentpages/studentname</a>". <br>
<br>-Jai<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/23 Shyamala Rajaram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shyamala@netlinkindia.com">shyamala@netlinkindia.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> The below modules should help.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> Organic Groups: <u><a href="http://drupal.org/project/og" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/og</a></u></span></font></p>
<p><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">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.</span></font></i></p>
<p><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">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.</span></font></i></p>
<p><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Groups get their own theme, language, taxonomy, and so on.
Integrates well and depends upon Views module</span></font></i></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Views:</span></font> <u><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="http://drupal.org/project/views" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/views</a></span></font></u></p>
<p><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">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.</span></font></i></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> and CCK: <a href="http://drupal.org/project/cck" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/cck</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font><i><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-style: italic;">CCK,
will help us create custom node types.</span></font></i></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> Shyamala</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.netlinkindia.com/" target="_blank">Netlink
Technologies Limited</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/</a></span></font></p>
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