[support] Advise for new website

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Joe Java <cop3252 at yahoo.com>:

> My company is looking to build an internal document/project/user
> management website, perhaps using Drupal 7.
> I would like some advise on module selection and site architecture.
>
> There are 3 things the site needs to do.
> 1. Documents
> A Document consists of a text file with many files associated with it.
> Ex: legal document with a lot of images, specifications, videos, etc.
> All the files will have tags associated with them for easy searching.
>
> It is important that a user be able to download an entire document at
> once (I think a zip file would work), or parts of a document,
> say all images associated with a particular document.
>
> 2. Projects
> A project is a group of documents, users on the project team, and
> an organized drop-box of files that people can easily share.
> A Drop-box is just a place to share files (they are not tagged,
> but are organized by what directory they are in and  by their names).
>
> Example of the drop-box structure is a directory structure like so:
> project A
>     legal
>     specifications
>     computations
>     etc.
> Project B
>     plan sets
>     proposals
>     etc.
>
> It is *VERY* important that user be able to move many files at once
> into and out of the drop-box (entire directories or large sets of
> chosen files).
>
> I have looked but can not find any easy way in Drupal to move many
> files back and forth between the client and server.  Multiple file
> upload and download seems to be missing in Drupal core.
> Ideally there should be a simple file drag and drop module for
> moving files between client and server.
>
> 3. Users
> Users consists of an email address an image and a bunch of meta data
> (name, address, company, etc.)
>
> Mailing lists are very important. Creating/deleting mailing lists and
> adding/deleting users to the lists has be be easy.

Hello Joe,

For free and easy I use virtualmin GPL (from virtualmin.com) to set up  
email and mailman mailing lists. If you use the paid for version  
you'll have an installer for Drupal as well, currently at version 7.2.  
This won't do away with the need for a knowledgeable designer for your  
other requirements, but will get you started.

Dave


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