First of all, thanks to anyone in advance for their help. I'm new to Drupal but have been playing with it for a week or so (quite a fun piece of software).

What I'd like to do is somehow create something like a template that would create multiple nodes. In particular, say I wanted to keep track of local events in a table on a particular page (say in a node called events). I've seen how the contemplate plugin with CCK can allow a person to easily fill out a form and create some specialized content. However, the content only appears to contain a single node. Say my event had a pdf event flier I wanted to post, a sign up form and some other information that I didn't want to cram all into a single node. Pretend I were to add an event 'e1' - ideally the structure would look something like this after adding:

Node                  Description
events                Contains the table which now has a link to e1
events/e1             Contains the general info and links to event/e1/signup & files/e1_flier
events/e1/signup      Contains sign-up info for the event e1
files/e1_flier.pdf    Contains flier for e1

Essentially every event will follow the same format in the case of the site I am trying to build. As such, it seems silly to me to have to always create each item by hand -- I want to create an event template which would generate each of these items, fill in the contents I put in a form (similar to contemplate) but instead of generating a single new node generates something similar to the structure above with the proper links. Something like this would also be helpful because it would save re-inputting common data between any of the nodes (the information would go out to each node individually from the original form).

Does anything like this currently exist? If not, anyone know if there is anything even close to something like this?

Again, thanks for anyones help :-)

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nevets’s picture

Start by making your event type with CCK. Make sure the upload module is enabled, then visit 'Administer' -> 'Content management' -> 'Content type' and click the edit tab for your content type. Under workflow make sure 'Attachements' are enabled. You will also want to grant upload permissons to the appropriate roles. You now have your event and you can add attachements (the PDF flyer). Next step is to visit http://drupal.org/project/signup and check out the signup module. Still in testing for Drupal 5.0 but you might want to try it out as it would provide the signup ability you are looking for.

kmartshopper’s picture

That actually looks like it would work exactly how I want it. I am using 5.x, but I don't think that will be a problem.

Thanks for your help - I'll give it a shot!