This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that allows people to join the organization. I have two instances now, one where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!
Where online payments are involved, you might take a look at Ubercart. There's a module included that associates a role with a product, so that any user purchasing the product is promoted to the associated role. So a user could start out as a registered user, or become registered through the normal checkout process, and then be given fuller access once the payment is processed.
As for your third site, I'm not sure. Too much information missing here. What do you mean by "categories"? Sounds like you might be interested in og. You can explore from there what modules are available for customizing registration forms. You also could use "node profile" to create profiles as CCK types, including computed fields that would generate the 'what you would pay' info.
Bob Morse wrote:
This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that allows people to join the organization. I have two instances now, one where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!
Thanks, Christopher. Listing by categories simply means chamber members are displayed under categories of types of business. So we have a custom search that groups businesses by category and each category can be linked to so you can display only one category.
Will look at your suggestions.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Where online payments are involved, you might take a look at Ubercart. There's a module included that associates a role with a product, so that any user purchasing the product is promoted to the associated role. So a user could start out as a registered user, or become registered through the normal checkout process, and then be given fuller access once the payment is processed.
As for your third site, I'm not sure. Too much information missing here. What do you mean by "categories"? Sounds like you might be interested in og. You can explore from there what modules are available for customizing registration forms. You also could use "node profile" to create profiles as CCK types, including computed fields that would generate the 'what you would pay' info.
Bob Morse wrote:
This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that allows people to join the organization. I have two instances now, one where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!
So are these usernodes associated with taxonomy terms? Is that how you are 'categorizing' these users?
What do they do once they are on the site? Is this a site for collaboration on projects? Any social networking involved? Or is it just getting access to privileged content?
Bob Morse wrote:
Thanks, Christopher. Listing by categories simply means chamber members are displayed under categories of types of business. So we have a custom search that groups businesses by category and each category can be linked to so you can display only one category.
Will look at your suggestions.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Where online payments are involved, you might take a look at Ubercart. There's a module included that associates a role with a product, so that any user purchasing the product is promoted to the associated role. So a user could start out as a registered user, or become registered through the normal checkout process, and then be given fuller access once the payment is processed.
As for your third site, I'm not sure. Too much information missing here. What do you mean by "categories"? Sounds like you might be interested in og. You can explore from there what modules are available for customizing registration forms. You also could use "node profile" to create profiles as CCK types, including computed fields that would generate the 'what you would pay' info.
Bob Morse wrote:
This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that allows people to join the organization. I have two instances now, one where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!
I have sort of muddled this discussion by confusing the current site we are working on and trying to find a simple solution for new, potential sites going forward. That's really my goal. Sorry for the confusion.
So far, while all suggestions are fine, they are not simple and I guess that's what's surprising to me. Maybe there is a need for one or two modules that do what we want without making any code modifications.
As for the current site, their needs for users are minimal so the membership list is not even tied to site membership at the moment. They are categorized by a field in CCK.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
So are these usernodes associated with taxonomy terms? Is that how you are 'categorizing' these users?
What do they do once they are on the site? Is this a site for collaboration on projects? Any social networking involved? Or is it just getting access to privileged content?
Bob Morse wrote:
Thanks, Christopher. Listing by categories simply means chamber members are displayed under categories of types of business. So we have a custom search that groups businesses by category and each category can be linked to so you can display only one category.
Will look at your suggestions.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Where online payments are involved, you might take a look at Ubercart. There's a module included that associates a role with a product, so that any user purchasing the product is promoted to the associated role. So a user could start out as a registered user, or become registered through the normal checkout process, and then be given fuller access once the payment is processed.
As for your third site, I'm not sure. Too much information missing here. What do you mean by "categories"? Sounds like you might be interested in og. You can explore from there what modules are available for customizing registration forms. You also could use "node profile" to create profiles as CCK types, including computed fields that would generate the 'what you would pay' info.
Bob Morse wrote:
This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that allows people to join the organization. I have two instances now, one where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!
Quoting Bob Morse bob@morsemedia.net:
Thanks, Christopher. Listing by categories simply means chamber members are displayed under categories of types of business. So we have a custom search that groups businesses by category and each category can be linked to so you can display only one category.
I think you want: http://drupal.org/project/content_profile http://drupal.org/project/autotag http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
and maybe: http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile
I'm thinking you need to create a profile field or two for "type of business". The content_profile will then move the profile data to a node that taxonomy can then be filled. The autotag module would be setup to tag the profile content type on a preset list of tags. The work would be to hook_form_alter the "type of business" field with the list of tags from the chosen vocabulary. Pathauto would be setup to create nice url's of sample.org/"type of business" which is really the vocabulary term but you would have your list of members for that business.
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