Hi,
The below modules should help.
Organic Groups: http://drupal.org/project/og
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.
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.
Groups get their own theme, language, taxonomy, and so on. Integrates well and depends upon Views module
Views: http://drupal.org/project/views
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.
and CCK: http://drupal.org/project/cck
CCK, will help us create custom node types.
Shyamala
Netlink http://www.netlinkindia.com/ Technologies Limited
http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Jai Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:19 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] College Website Migrating to Drupal
Hi,
I am in process of transforming my college's website from old dead static page site to drupal powered website. These are the features I am thinking to implement.
1. Each student of the college could have his own homepage on college's domain. As if http://collegedomain/studentpages/studentname. The student should have control on that page only. Under his homepage tree, he should be able to create hierarchy of content. i.e. child nodes under his home page.
2. Lecturers and other staff of the college should also have their home page under the their department's category where they could upload their Resume etc. Now while showing a listing of computer science faculty members, that list could be fetched dynamically from the content provided by them on their pages.
3. In the same way, each society of the college should have their home page. It will be having same capabilities as user pages. e.g. their home pages and ability to create other nodes as child of the home page.
4. There should be a group page for each society. Only the members of that society ( e.g. members of the tech club in our college) should be able to subscribe to that group. They could discuss their issues on the group forum.
5. I would like to fetch content dynamically from pages named Latest News and Upcoming Events to two different blocks on the front page. The block which is containing latest news will have 5 news stories, then each news story title should feature a small image along with it.
6. Different permissions will be defined for students, lecturers, community, library admin and management accounts.
I would like to know about the modules needed for these tasks or other resources which will be helpful here. Right now, I am experimenting with CCK and Views and they look to be quite important for implementation of some of the tasks.
Thanks,
-Jai