[consulting] best course of action question

[Ben Steele]

You might want to look at using Workflow - http://www.drupal.org/
combined with Triggers & Actions (which are in core).

Like Matt said, the RFQ & Quote could be linked together using the CCK
node reference field. The Quote could then have various statuses like
pending, approved, rejected, etc.

It could be very similar to the publishing workflow in the O'Reilly
'Using Drupal' book (obviously tweaked to meet your needs).






Benedict Steele
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2009/3/4 Matt Chapman <Matt at ninjitsuweb.com>:
> Jeremy Weiss wrote:
>> Based on what Matt said, I'm thinking I'll need to create a few new node types.
>>       The RFQ node which is filled out by the buyer and sent to all the appropriate sellers
>>       The Quote node which is filled out by the sellers and sent back to the buyer
>>       The Agreement (for lack of a better term) node where the buyer chooses a certain seller's quote
>
> I'm not sure 'Agreement' needs to be it's own node type.
>
> If you're just wanting to track the relationship between the RFQ and the
> accepted quote, my first inclination would be to make it a node
> reference field on the RFQ.
>
> Matt
> NinjitsuWeb.com
>
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