[development] Newbie Drupal 7 - Creating Attendence by useraccess

[Carl Wiedemann]

Also consider http://drupal.org/project/feeds


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
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