Thanks to everyone for their useful feedback on this project, I was hoping to be able to export the architect's CAD drawings and Excel spreadsheets as .pdfs to benefit from vector quality and small file size, but for the time being maybe I'll need to export them as .png Shai, in response to your question about the saveable checklists, these would need to act like an inventory of products, so there would be a series of items, each with a title, description, image, item code and associated options to be checked / unchecked, as shown in this image:  Thanks, Richard Wilding

Richard,

Welcome to Drupal!

Everything is quite straightforward except for two things.

Re: the checklists, I'd need to know more info about the requirements to recommend a course of action.

For the images, using imagefield in conjunction with imagecache you are good-to-go very easily.

However, I'm just not sure about zooming in on the .pdfs. It's possible/likely folks who are working on the filefield project (http://drupal.org/project/filefield) are either working on or maybe even created what you want. I just don't know.

While there certainly is a learning curve re: Drupal's templating system --- it is amazingly powerful and flexible. You can control anything you want without hacking --- which means you can continually upgrade Drupal core and its contrib modules, keep benefiting from improvements, bug fixes etc... without having to worry that you've broken your customizations. It is totally brilliant.

Do let us know what you decide, discover, etc.

Shai <a href="http://content2zero.com">Content2zero</a>

Richard, Something went wrong with that image you sent. Re: the list, Are the check boxes on/off flags to designate something, like something done on a to do list? Is the status of an item shared by all users OR, Is the flag status for each item unique to the user viewing the page? Actually, for any of these scenarios, my hunch is that using the "flag" module (http://drupal.org/project/flag) in conjunction views ( http://drupal.org/project/views) would get you what you need. Shai On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Richard Wilding < richard@richardwilding.com> wrote:

Thanks to everyone for their useful feedback on this project, I was hoping to be able to export the architect's CAD drawings and Excel spreadsheets as .pdfs to benefit from vector quality and small file size, but for the time being maybe I'll need to export them as .png

Shai, in response to your question about the saveable checklists, these would need to act like an inventory of products, so there would be a series of items, each with a title, description, image, item code and associated options to be checked / unchecked, as shown in this image:

Thanks, Richard Wilding

Richard,

Welcome to Drupal!

Everything is quite straightforward except for two things.

Re: the checklists, I'd need to know more info about the requirements to recommend a course of action.

For the images, using imagefield in conjunction with imagecache you are good-to-go very easily.

However, I'm just not sure about zooming in on the .pdfs. It's possible/likely folks who are working on the filefield project ( http://drupal.org/project/filefield) are either working on or maybe even created what you want. I just don't know.

While there certainly is a learning curve re: Drupal's templating system --- it is amazingly powerful and flexible. You can control anything you want without hacking --- which means you can continually upgrade Drupal core and its contrib modules, keep benefiting from improvements, bug fixes etc... without having to worry that you've broken your customizations. It is totally brilliant.

Do let us know what you decide, discover, etc.

Shai <a href="http://content2zero.com">Content2zero</a>

-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

I haven't had a chance to go through this myself, but here is a video from the Do It With Drupal seminar held in December on re-creating Basecamp with Drupal. http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/free-videos Steve Laura Scott wrote:

We have something much like this in use for our client-facing issue tracking system, built in Drupal 6 with robust use of organic groups, views, actions and triggers (and many more). Definitely doable.

You run up against a technology limitation with PDF viewing though. That is enabled by browser plug-in, different on every platform. Zooming in and out on other images, though, is very doable. We're using a jQuery script for that.

Laura http://pingv.com

On Thursday 26 February 2009, at 8:31 am, Richard Wilding wrote:

...

Hi All,

I'm new to Drupal and this mailing list.

I'm a front-end designer and have been asked by an architect to 're-skin' a Google Sites project he has set up to share project images, plans and to-do lists with one of his clients

Google Sites does not allow access to their html / css templates for me to change the page structure and styles, so I'm looking for another platform

I've looked at project management / collaboration platforms like Basecamp and Huddle, but they seem too complex and I really want a simple interface with just the features my client needs

Is Drupal suitable for this or is there another platform that I should investigate?

Here is a summary of the most important features required:

1. Restricted access with multiple user accounts

2. Display text, images, .pdfs and videos within the website pages

3. Zoom or enlarge images and .pdfs to view details in drawings & .pdf spreadsheets

4. Include tables of information with column ordering i.e team contact list

5. Include savable checklists

6. Page templates need to be customizable through html and css

Thanks and best wishes,

Richard Wilding

-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Laura Scott <pinglaura@gmail.com> wrote:

We have something much like this in use for our client-facing issue tracking system, built in Drupal 6 with robust use of organic groups, views, actions and triggers (and many more). Definitely doable. You run up against a technology limitation with PDF viewing though. That is enabled by browser plug-in, different on every platform. Zooming in and out on other images, though, is very doable. We're using a jQuery script for that.

One possibility is http://drupal.org/project/ipaper based on a third party storage service. I looked around for any flash-based solutions but didn't find anything useful.

Laura http://pingv.com On Thursday 26 February 2009, at 8:31 am, Richard Wilding wrote:

Hi All, I'm new to Drupal and this mailing list. I'm a front-end designer and have been asked by an architect to 're-skin' a Google Sites project he has set up to share project images, plans and to-do lists with one of his clients Google Sites does not allow access to their html / css templates for me to change the page structure and styles, so I'm looking for another platform I've looked at project management / collaboration platforms like Basecamp and Huddle, but they seem too complex and I really want a simple interface with just the features my client needs Is Drupal suitable for this or is there another platform that I should investigate?

Here is a summary of the most important features required: 1. Restricted access with multiple user accounts 2. Display text, images, .pdfs and videos within the website pages 3. Zoom or enlarge images and .pdfs to view details in drawings & .pdf spreadsheets 4. Include tables of information with column ordering i.e team contact list 5. Include savable checklists 6. Page templates need to be customizable through html and css

Thanks and best wishes, Richard Wilding -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]