I'm sorry if this is not within the acceptable question guidelines for Stack Overflow, but I am feeling stumped, and I feel that what I'm trying to do might just be incredibly simple for some of the veterans here.
I've set up an Ubercart on a Drupal installation for a small gym website. What they are wanting is to allow a customer to register and pay for various memberships for their children (youth flag football, teeball, etc.). One person may come back and sign up multiple times throughout the year, and each customer may have multiple children who can each participate in multiple programs.
What I'm thinking is to disable anonymous checkout on Ubercart. The customer billing address will be the saved information for the "parent." I'm thinking that the parents could create Members (their children) which could be stored in a content type called Members and the Members could be linked to the programs of which they are a member via entity reference. The children could maintain their relationship to their parents by authorship.
I've been trying to work through this for the last few hours. Does anyone know of a way the I can accomplish this--maybe with rules? I'm thinking some kind of credit system in which for each quantity of a membership (per program) that they pay for, they get one "credit" to create one entity reference between a member and a program.
Any brainstorming and help on this topic would be majorly appreciated. Thanks.
Your use case sounds more like event registration than selling memberships. Each class would be an event that parents would register their children for. It may seem like overkill here, but I would use something like CiviCRM or RedHen CRM for this. Both support the concept of relationships between members and provide event management tools. You could make each class an event that people would sign up for, pay (they could even register multiple children at the same time) and get a receipt. The event history information would be stored so parents could sign in and see what each child has done. You could even make the list of kids in the class public so parents could see who else is in the class.
Afterward, it would be easy to put together a survey to send to the "attendees" to get feedback on the event/class and notify them about future events. I can think of a dozen different things that these systems cover that you may need in the future (early bird event registration, special pricing for returning parents/children, activity reports to email to parents every year so they can see what their children did...).
You may be able to pull together modules and custom content types (Ubercart Event Registration module as a starting point), but a CRM would provide the things you are looking for now, and the features your customer will be asking for in the future.
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I have two queries related to SCRUM. They are as follows:
I have read that the format of SCRUM story is "As a < type of user >, I want < some goal > so that < some reason >". I have to write a story for an API. This API will send an email with a link to validate the email address of the user. What will be the type of user here? Will it be the user logged in?
Do subtasks have story format similar to a story or it can be a normal description?
The trouble you are encountering is likely that you are starting from a determined implementation and then trying to work backwards to the need (unless your product is an API that your users leverage, in which case I think that answers your questions).
When we approach it from a user need, we'll usually end up with more of a problem statement, like
"As a vacationer, I'd like the site to calculate the best route across
all types of transportation for me so that I don't have to run many
searches to figure it out myself."
One of the pieces of delivering on this need will be creating the API calls if your application architecture calls for that. Then "add API method for aggregated call" may be a task under that user story.
You will have cases where all a particular story needs is API work, and that's fine, but it won't come out in the user story. For example, let's say we did the about user story but limited it to planes and trains for the first start, then we created another story that reads:
"As a vacationer in the US, I want my trip planner to factor in buses
so that I can make use of bus tours in my vacation."
Now, maybe the only task in there is to create a some API changes to include the bus routes in the search, but that doesn't cause a problem with your user stories because we started back at the user's problem statement in the beginning instead of starting at the desired implementation and working backward.
Let's start clarifying some concepts first.
Scrum is not an acronym so is written as Scrum (proper name). Then, there is nothing called "Scrum Stories". What you are referring to is called: user story. User stories were wide used in the Chrysler C3 project were eXtreme Programming was developed. Furthermore, you are referring to a particular template which was popularized by Mike Cohn known as canonical form. So it's ok to express your Product Backlog Item as user stories for an API. But take into account that you can use this template, you can use user stories or you can write the Product Backlog Item the way has more sense and value to you. In your case, which is the persona, machine or service which will be used the API?
About your second question. The Scrum Guide just says you should decompose your Sprint Planning in unit of work of 1 day or less. Normally, the implementation is to create this unit of work and call them task which are the work necessary to carry out the user story. The way the are written is open too but is not quite common to write them in the canonical form. So you can write it as an ID, title and a description.
I need to build a secure web application that allows sports coaches to go in and add points (numerical values) to each of their own sport players.
Each coach should only have access to their own information (through their email and a password) and an area that lets them update only their player's points.
There is a total of 4,000 coaches and 10,000 players that have to allocated to their appropriate coaches.
I have attached an image of how that would work through a crappy hand drawing.
What would be the best web application to develop this on?
Web Map of Coaches and Players relationship
Well, this is highly subjective. The world is your oyster. It sounds like your webapp is essentially a nice UI layer over a database.
Personally, because I work in these a lot, I'd use Yii (PHP) as a backend and set up models to match my tables in a SQL database. I'd create a controller as an API to expose those models to AJAX calls.
In the SQL database itself, I'd set up the coach/player relationships, as well as access rights for the different coach login profiles and admin rights for the admin profiles.
Then I'd set up an AngularJS frontend to display it all. With Angular, and other frameworks, it'd be really easy to rig up a table using filters to make player info searchable and filterable on things like name, score, player number, etc. I'd also want an interface to add coaches, and you'd want to give coaches the ability to add players.
It's so subjective though. You could do a noSQL database, java backend, c++ backend, scala, nodeJS, react.js, etc, etc. There's no one "right" solution. It basically comes down to your own programming preferences.
Seth pretty much summed up the very broadness this question brings for answers, but I actually created something very similar to this in Drupal. This website/app was used to run a multi-day fishing tournament.
The quick and dirty answer here (when using Drupal anyway) would be to restrict access through creatively setting up Roles and Taxonomy Terms for the coaches and players and only allowing Coaches to see players that have a certain term attached to them (when I say Coaches and Players, Coaches could be Drupal 'Users' and Players could be a content type, for example). You could then create another content type (entity) to hold the Points and then attach the Points to each player.
Another solution would be using Organic Groups and making the coaches group admins and putting their players in their own groups... So many different ways to handle this.
The reason I suggested Drupal was because a lot of the grunt work is already done for you. It already has the options to create/manage Users, restrict access to content and set up entities and tie them all together. This could totally be built from the ground up, as Seth suggested or it could be built on a framework or an existing content management system.
We're investigating Alfresco for doing wideband delphi ("planning poker") based on submitted statements of work (collected user stories). I've been reading through the Alfresco documentation, and there are two questions that I haven't been able to get clear answers to:
Can we set it up so users can write, but not read, to a folder or node? (To support "anonymous" planning, without users knowing what the other users submitted estimates were)
Can workflow tasks be implemented to ask users to comment or submit items to a node or director with the above model, rather than just simple approve or deny?
Workflow:
User submits a statement of work
All users (or selected users at random, or ... ) in group get notice to review
Reviews include estimates on the overall SOW or specific phases
Reviews are anonymous/secret to all but the manager
Have you implemented something similar in Alfresco with fine grained access control? Sharing your experience would be very helpful... i'm not looking for someone to do the work for me, just to confirm it can be done.
I would use some kind of parallel workflow for this.
First the managers starts the workflow and the task type of this first node will have additional info about the user story and such, then the manager selects a people or a group to which it will send this user story.
Here comes the parallel thing into play. Because it's parallel noone sees the results of the other members of the workflow. The members fill in the requested fields (another custom task type with data like: score (estimate) and maybe explanation.
Before the workflow goes back to manager the automatic calculations are made in a non-user task/node where you calculate overall score for the story. You can include each individual user and their score in the result/report if necessary.
Now the results are sent to the manager.
I have a tricky requirement where I need to categorise documents attached to a product, available for download, based on the status of the user viewing the product. I.e. my site displays a list of products, clicking on one displays a product details page, and this page includes a list a documents related to the product, such as data sheets, user manuals, etc.
I have been asked to group documents into three classes of availability, v.i.z. those available freely to all users, including anonymous; those available to logged on users; and those available to anonymous users that provide contact information before downloading the document, presumably to boost sales leads.
The anonymous and logged on availabilities are quite easy, but the third seems a bit tricky to me. My first question is, is there a way I can filter documents for only logged on users without hooking into ItemDataBound or something, and my second question is, what is recommended for the case where a user must supply contact information to download a document?
In the second question, it has crossed my mind to actually register the user, but without them having to visit the new user registration page, and then I have role based filtering of documents. Currently the new user registration process automatically adds the Member role to all new users. Users I register 'quietly', just so they can download a document, wont be assigned the Member role, distinguishing them from normally logged on members. What other approaches could I take?
A lot of this implementation will depend on exactly what you want to accomplish and how you go about doing it.
For example, if I don't have access to the document, should I see the link?
If your implementation is that all users should be able to see it, but that the actual act of 'getting it' is dependent upon the individual role or membership, you could solve it fairly easy by implementing a "handler" to download the secured documents, that way you are not presenting a direct file link. That handler could then validate security, if they were not allowed, it could then take them to the login or register page as needed.
If the users don't see the documents until they meet the requirement, I would then filter BEFORE you bind to your repeater.
hi i'm using drupal 6. In my user page i want to show latest activities related to user interest. interest means terms that user participated (forum topics, articles, polls..). Can any one know the best way to do it.
For ex : stackoverflow shows questions related user participated tags.
This sounds like something you might be able to do using the Flag terms module (http://drupal.org/project/flag_terms). This is a module that complements the much acclaimed Flag module (http://drupal.org/project/flag_terms), by allowing you to flag certain taxonomy terms. You can use views (http://drupal.org/project/views) to display lists of user flagged content.