[development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by useraccess

[Joel Willers]

Also, for future reference, a question like this is best for the Support list, not the Development list.  Development is more for the Development OF Drupal, like for Core or Contrib modules, if I understand correctly.  Also, I'm still in Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if Node Import is available in D7 yet.  

Good Luck!

Joel


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From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Joel Willers
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:16 AM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by useraccess

Upload a spreadsheet - I assume you mean csv/tsv file.  Node Import module is what I like to use.  There are many options for how to get the information into the site, though.  You could have a Meeting content type, and then have Date and Attendance for fields in them, or have User References so that the users can see what meetings they attended.  

Display = Views.  Views is your best method, in my opinion, to query a database and display the results.  In this case you can use an argument that defaults to Current User, and then use that to display the Meeting content type.  This would be a View of type Node.  Filter - Node:Type = Meeting, Fields - Meeting name (and whatever else).

Hopefully this will get you off to a good start.

Joel 

-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Iain Wiseman
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:32 AM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: [development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by user access

Hi,

I have list of people who attended meetings who have a drupal account.

I wish to
- Upload a speadsheet with the attendence
- Display to the users which have an account which meetings they attended
- These events are not in drupal calendar

I have reasonable knowledge of php/html and databases but no knowledge 
of drupal.

Where do I start? (Please be gentle)

Thanks,
Iain