By CWSmith1701 on

I've been trying to transition to drupal from an old homebuilt cms setup for a few months. I have a friend working the database to migrate the user content over. The problem now however is the user area. This area has to do some things per user that is not setup in a standard drupal install.

FIrst you must know this is a story archive site that will allow the registered users to add content. By this I mean uploading content and managing the documents involved to create their story book entries. First thing is that I need to make this simple for them. Upload of HTML/TXT Files (Found Feeds for uploading HTML but not sure how to implement it) maybe docvert for uploading ODT files (never gonna be able to offer doc/docx uploading probably) and they need to ONLY see content that has been created by the individual user.

We've managed to get the basic views, book front pages, taxonimy, and user dashboard (homebox) set up but I'm getting stuck on this content management area. I could use some advice and help bridging this hurdle.

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markhope commented

Have a look at Workbench series of modules:
http://drupal.org/project/workbench

This is a great way of managing content by user and provides a dashboard to only show what is relevant to that individual. It also has good 'save draft' features and other content moderation workflows. I don't know homebox bit maybe sound similar.

When you talk of uploading HTML or other docs, like ODT, do you want the files to be parsed into Drupal nodes?
Have a look at the import/export category of modules.

http://drupal.org/project/feeds_xpathparser <- plugin for parsing XML and HTML documents. It enables site builders to leverage the power of Feeds to easily import data from complex, external data sources
http://drupal.org/project/feeds

http://drupal.org/project/docapi <- this sounds like what you need for importing documents, however it's very neglected so probably isn't suitable. There's a discussion on groups about it so it may be worth approaching some of the group organisers on the topic.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/9929

A Google for 'parse odt files into drupal' throws up resources but suggests they are quite dated and there's no definitive module.

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CWSmith1701 commented

AS it relates to the html parse I have concidered and am concidering Feeds and the parser for that. THat doesn't seem to be a big issue. I found Docvert and while the docvert project is maintain the drupal module that uses it is NOT so maintained.

You wouldn't happen to know how to display one content created by a specific user and not just everyones stuff would you?

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CWSmith1701 commented

I've figured out the upload problem partially, (Feeds will create what I need as long as I have a good html file) now I just need help figuring out how to make the user document management area. It really has to cover these important things

It must allow for the creation of books with the custom front pages we have on file.
It must allow for editing/adding to of books created by the user.
It must only give the user access and information of the content books they have created.

I'm struggling with these parts of the creation as I want to make this as easy for users on my site as possible.