Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by user access
Hi, I have list of people who attended meetings who have a drupal account. I wish to - Upload a speadsheet with the attendence - Display to the users which have an account which meetings they attended - These events are not in drupal calendar I have reasonable knowledge of php/html and databases but no knowledge of drupal. Where do I start? (Please be gentle) Thanks, Iain
Upload a spreadsheet - I assume you mean csv/tsv file. Node Import module is what I like to use. There are many options for how to get the information into the site, though. You could have a Meeting content type, and then have Date and Attendance for fields in them, or have User References so that the users can see what meetings they attended. Display = Views. Views is your best method, in my opinion, to query a database and display the results. In this case you can use an argument that defaults to Current User, and then use that to display the Meeting content type. This would be a View of type Node. Filter - Node:Type = Meeting, Fields - Meeting name (and whatever else). Hopefully this will get you off to a good start. Joel -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Iain Wiseman Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:32 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by user access Hi, I have list of people who attended meetings who have a drupal account. I wish to - Upload a speadsheet with the attendence - Display to the users which have an account which meetings they attended - These events are not in drupal calendar I have reasonable knowledge of php/html and databases but no knowledge of drupal. Where do I start? (Please be gentle) Thanks, Iain
Also, for future reference, a question like this is best for the Support list, not the Development list. Development is more for the Development OF Drupal, like for Core or Contrib modules, if I understand correctly. Also, I'm still in Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if Node Import is available in D7 yet. Good Luck! Joel -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Joel Willers Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:16 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by useraccess Upload a spreadsheet - I assume you mean csv/tsv file. Node Import module is what I like to use. There are many options for how to get the information into the site, though. You could have a Meeting content type, and then have Date and Attendance for fields in them, or have User References so that the users can see what meetings they attended. Display = Views. Views is your best method, in my opinion, to query a database and display the results. In this case you can use an argument that defaults to Current User, and then use that to display the Meeting content type. This would be a View of type Node. Filter - Node:Type = Meeting, Fields - Meeting name (and whatever else). Hopefully this will get you off to a good start. Joel -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Iain Wiseman Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:32 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by user access Hi, I have list of people who attended meetings who have a drupal account. I wish to - Upload a speadsheet with the attendence - Display to the users which have an account which meetings they attended - These events are not in drupal calendar I have reasonable knowledge of php/html and databases but no knowledge of drupal. Where do I start? (Please be gentle) Thanks, Iain
Also consider http://drupal.org/project/feeds On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Joel Willers <joel.willers@sigler.com>wrote:
Also, for future reference, a question like this is best for the Support list, not the Development list. Development is more for the Development OF Drupal, like for Core or Contrib modules, if I understand correctly. Also, I'm still in Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if Node Import is available in D7 yet.
Good Luck!
Joel
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto: development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Joel Willers Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:16 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by useraccess
Upload a spreadsheet - I assume you mean csv/tsv file. Node Import module is what I like to use. There are many options for how to get the information into the site, though. You could have a Meeting content type, and then have Date and Attendance for fields in them, or have User References so that the users can see what meetings they attended.
Display = Views. Views is your best method, in my opinion, to query a database and display the results. In this case you can use an argument that defaults to Current User, and then use that to display the Meeting content type. This would be a View of type Node. Filter - Node:Type = Meeting, Fields - Meeting name (and whatever else).
Hopefully this will get you off to a good start.
Joel
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto: development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Iain Wiseman Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:32 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by user access
Hi,
I have list of people who attended meetings who have a drupal account.
I wish to - Upload a speadsheet with the attendence - Display to the users which have an account which meetings they attended - These events are not in drupal calendar
I have reasonable knowledge of php/html and databases but no knowledge of drupal.
Where do I start? (Please be gentle)
Thanks, Iain
On 19/04/2011 1:23 a.m., Joel Willers wrote:
Also, for future reference, a question like this is best for the Support list, not the Development list. Development is more for the Development OF Drupal, like for Core or Contrib modules, if I understand correctly. Also, I'm still in Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if Node Import is available in D7 yet.
Good Luck!
Joel
Many thanks for replying will look tonight. Hopefully replied in the correct fashion it has been maybe 15 years since I used mailing lists :-)
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