event showcase and managing

By keneso on 19 Nov 2014 at 17:53 UTC

Hi,

I am planning to create a site for a non-profit org to manage various events.
I took a quick look at the options, and saw there are some modules, and distributions, but couldn't quite decide if they are what I need.

I try to explain my needs:

- Events can be one day to multiple days.
- Need to have "categories" as in geographic areas, i.e. site user is interested in events in California should be able to select California to see the events there, which should be categorized as well, i.e. seminars, conferences, etc.
- Some of the users should be able to create (add), and manage events, maybe limited to their geographic area.
- The event creator should be able to create custom registration, and contact forms for the given event.
- The event creation process (form) should have a given set of "fields" to be fileed out to publish the event, so that the presentation of all events would be consistent thoughout the site, i.e. date, place, general info, prices, etc.
- A calendar to quickly check what events are taking places in a given period, both as overall, and filtered by geographic area, and/or event type

Perhaps some other needs will arise, but as of now this is what I have come up, any suggestion is welcome.

So the question is if it is possible to do it.

Thank you

Comments

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pixelsweatshop commented 20 November 2014 at 21:25

Pretty straightforward.

You are going to need the following modules:

Date
Calendar
Taxonomy (in core)
Webform (I originally felt that entity registration would be better here but since you need to make different forms on the fly, then webform would be your better bet).
Form Builder
Taxonomy Access Control

You are going to create an event content type that is also a webform.
Add the following fields:

Date field (multivalue)
Taxonomy Geographic Area
Taxonomy Category (seminars, conferences, etc.)
Any additional fields.

Then, with taxonomy access control you are going to create roles for regions and tie those regions to access permission.

Thank you.

keneso commented 20 November 2014 at 10:53

Thank you.

I'll download, and try, it'll take some time to learn, and implement, in case I'll post for help.

Do you have a link to the specific modules, 'cause I searched and couldn't find all.

It is better to break down

pixelsweatshop commented 20 November 2014 at 21:28

It is better to break down what you need into smaller, more digestible chunks and post individual forum posts on each issue, instead of one large one like you have done here. You are more likely to get support if it's smaller and is distributed over multiple people to help.

I am not sure why you couldn't find the modules. A simple google search for "Drupal [Name of module]" gives you what you need. It is the first result in google for each one. Either way, I have updated my original post with the links.

Thank you, very kind of you.

keneso commented 21 November 2014 at 11:29

Thank you, very kind of you.
I actually couldn't find the form builder, and taxonomy, the first one as there were more than one, and didn't know which one you were suggesting, and the latter I found out it was in the core after I installed drupal.

Of course, when I'll start playing with it I'll post single issues as I go step by step ... I'm afraid there'll be lots of posts ...

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pixelsweatshop commented 21 November 2014 at 13:53

I'm afraid there'll be lots of posts

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