Hi everybody.
I have a big project for a customer here in China and after studying its requirements and the different technologies available out there, I am left with two choices: Drupal and DotNetNuke.
This project indeed involve a very detailed list of user groups and permissions for its different features and these two Open-Source CMS seem to be the ones that provide the best ACL.
I am personally more experienced with DotNetNuke and I'm confident that I could find all the DNN modules that I need for this project, but my team has mostly been working with Joomla! so if I can find all these modules for Drupal, that would probably be best.
So I have had a quick look at the list of modules on the Drupal website and couldn't easily find those so I thought I'll flick a quick email to the support mailing-list.
As you guys know Drupal much better than me, you might be able to let me know if these modules are actually available.
Thanks for your help!
Sebastien Louis
Project Manager Crystal Science & Technology
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1 - User Registration
The main reason for choosing Drupal for this website is that it offers a powerful ACL. After registering to the website, users will be put in the Members group, but they should also have the ability to submit further documents and details to become a Verified Members. So it would be great to find an existing module that can handle two-steps registrations.
2 - User Profile
Registered users will be given the ability to manage their own user profile. Like most websites of this kind, users will be able to keep some of these details private.
However, even though the email address might not be displayed, users should be able to email the users they visit the user profile. This is similar to sending a message to the user except that the message is send by email. No need for an internal inbox for each user.
3 - User Directory
The purpose of this module is to provide the ability to access the profiles of the users in a specific group (i.e. the list of Verified Members).
Details of the different users will be displayed according to a set of internal rules (i.e. do not show the email address) and according to each user preferences (i.e. user can choose to show his address or not).
To browse this directory, visitors will be able to use an advanced search interface (i.e. search by name, city, region, country...) or by clicking on a simple map with predefined regions.
4 - Marketing Tools
The purpose of this module is to take advantage of the list of users to send them newsletters and invitations according to different criteria (i.e. group, region, date of birth...).
5 - Calendar of Events
A standard calendar module that can be configured to display role based events.
6 - Forums
A standard forum module that can be configured to display role based threads.
7 - Online Discussion
The purpose of this module is to setup an online discussion on a specific topic between an expert and the different users of the website. Questions will be posted by the users for the expert to answer. Moderators will need to review the questions before they are sent to the expert.
8 - RSS Feeds
A standard RSS reader module that can be configured to display role based feeds.
9 - News Feeds
A standard news module that can be configured to display role based news.
Ideally the administrator of the website should be able to publish news in different categories and each category will be displayed in a different page, but if that's not possible, administrating several instance of the module should be fine.
Control over the number of news per page and over the layout of the different pages should be easy to setup or hack.
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