I would like to know what is the best way to create a custom page for my client where he can update is content by himself, the simpliest way possible for him, without even entering drupal management.
I would like to create a page with different dropdown list where he can't update a table on a page, only by selecting an item in those and add other dropdown list as well.
For example: he logs in a custom page
Theres a list with different kind of fruits, he choose banana and it automaticaly update a page table and update it with banana.
After that he could also create a new drop down list of vegetables for example, and add different kind in it so he can use it to update the site later. All that done with ajax as well.
I'm very new to drupal and have a couple of php notions, but i don't know where to start, would it be in CCK, Views or Form Api or the three at the same time?
Or is there a module out there doing that kind of thing?
English is not my primary language, so sorry if it isn't very clear.
Thank you very much.
I think what you are looking for is CCK module. You can create a CCK content type and have a field within it called fruits. From the admin interface you can decide what are the values that should be in the dropdown.
You can give the client permission to create a node of the content type. If you think he should be able to edit only the drop down values, make sure you give him the permission to only that field.
You can create a listing page using http://drupal.org/project/views or you can also consider using
http://drupal.org/project/editview
You should take a look at views bulk operations, and try using the "modify node fields" feature which will allow you to perform bulk operations on node fields displayed in a view and then look into roles & permissions which will help you restrict viewing the "View" by role.
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Helo ,
I am quiet new to umbraco. I want to reate a page which will show a list of items which should be added in administration section. Any tutorials on this ?
Thanks
It depends on whether you want to manage the list as an admin (ie you as the dev) or as an editor (ie whoever manages the content).
If it's you managing the list then you could use one of the custom data types that come with uComponents to manage a list - eitehr as an Enum, or as a list of content or as an SQL table
If you want an editor to manage it - and this is usually my preferred route, You could create a content data type purely for managing lists and create your items as a child data type below that. You can then use either the API to get what you want out of the list, or again one of the controls that comes with uComponents.
If you give some more details I can help you with it perhaps
thanks,
Carl
I want to make site that displays form, and makes user capable to input certain parameters in it. For example, real estate site. Let say I have these fields among others: location, price, size. If user choose to see houses under 100 000$, Drupal has to back node teasers (fields) for houses only under that price.
Now, I wonder how to make Views module start searching when user click submit button, and how to make conditions under which Views search, dynamically dependent of parameters users put into form.
Do I need some additional modules beside Views and Webform modules? Or maybe, I don't need them? Maybe I have to write some php/mysql script that do searching and fetching, but, naturally, I think Views module is build for that kind of circumstances. Thanks in advance!
1) There is an option in Views when you create the exposed filters: "Remember the last selection". This caches the user selection for each Views and when user visits the Views again he will see the previous filters enabled.
2) For better UX you can use Better_Exposed_Filters and Views_Saved_Searches modules. With the first one you have much more options for exposed filters (eg expose as checkboxes) and with the last one users can save their searches and use them later (like bookmarking a url path).
PS. I don't think using the Webform module with views will be useful in order to create personal saved searches. Instead, Views Saved Searches is what you are looking for.
I am new to Drupal. I am working with a preexisting website that has a couple dozen staff bloggers. Some of the bloggers need to have all of their posts migrated out to a database (the CMS they will be imported to is not yet known).
I have looked into a few modules for backups, but they don't seem to have the ability to choose what exactly is exported.
If anyone could give me some advice or direct me to an appropriate module, that would be fantastic!
You can do it easily with Views and Views Data Export modules.
However, you will need to learn a little about Views before making use of the Data Export module. You can follow some quick tutorials. You will not need any coding skills but concentrate on Views UI , Filters and Arguments.
Make a View on node as primary content, and add a filter (or an argument if you want to take the user ID from URL) for User: UID and add fields you want to get exposed as Fields. Then, in the style settings, choose "Data Export". Create a page display and give it a path.
You can also make the form advanced with exposed filters.
How do I add a field, say 'Contributors' in Archetype types, to be listed in Field name drop down menu? For example, in a fresh new Plone site, I can manage criteria at events/aggregator/criterion_edit_form. I want 'Contributors' and custom fields to be added as criteria.
BTW, I ever look into Products/ATContentTypes/tool/topic.py, it seems that I have to addIndex and make it 'enabled=True'. But how? Or do I go into wrong direction?
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You can go into Site Setup and go to the collections configuration(or just append /portal_atct/atct_manageTopicIndex onto the site url) and manage which which are allowed to be used in collections.
You'll have to click the "All fields" button to see everything available. The caveat is that the only fields available are those that are indexes in the portal_catalog. So for your case, you'll need to add a contributors index in the portal_catalog in order to have it available in the form here.
I need help on how to create a 'custom form' using the same fields provided by cck.
Drupal gives you the ability to add fields to 'nodes' and how to theme their output. But I would like to be able to post a data from my own form (that pops-up) and sends data to the drupal database using the same drupal cck.
How do I access the specific form inputs to add data to my content types ? because the default form is kind of 'ugly' and loads on different page(without ajax).
Help would be much appreciated
There are several routes you could go down.
The easier option is to use the Webforms module. While this gives you similar fields to cck, they are not exactly the same, and if you have a module that implements a specific cck field type, it won't be available to webforms.
The second choice is to write your own module using the forms api. This can mean a lot of learning, add it takes time to get up to speed, but ultimately you have total control over how your form will look and behave. The forms api doesn't give you exactly the same fields, but all the tools are there to create them. Sometimes you need to hack open a module to find out haw a specific field is implemented.
A third option would be to use cck itself. You could create a content type and add the field types you want on your form. You would them give users permission to create but not view or edit the content type. The form submissions would them be nodes on your website. This would make me slightly nervous, so make sure all your permissions are correct!
The second part of your question: you can use a theme file to override the appearance of most forms and make them pretty.
James