Data entry portal in D7 ?

By je1 on 5 Nov 2015 at 00:55 UTC

I need to be able to enter sales transactions and save them to a file. A transaction consists of multiple fields: name, address, amount ... Is this possible in Drupal?

Thanks,

Comments

Not sure why you need to save

nevets commented 5 November 2015 at 01:12

Not sure why you need to save them in a file.

In Drupal, the straightforward way would be to use a content type, in which case it's stored in the database.

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bander2 commented 5 November 2015 at 13:39

Then, if you want, I guess you could download a PDF version of the content with this module:

https://www.drupal.org/project/print

- Brendan

Each user can login in and

je1 commented 5 November 2015 at 13:45

The user interface is used to enter several transactions which need to be saved to database or file per user. The transactions are later processed by another application.

The question is about the data entry form page, is there a simple way to allow each user to create, view, update their transactions?

Thank you Brendan for you comment

Like I said, the straight

nevets commented 5 November 2015 at 14:51

Like I said, the straight forward approach would be to use a custom content type with appropriate fields.

Can you explain more or provide links on how a custom content type, once created, can be used by different users to save/view transactions to their own database like user profile - logged in user only sees own data?

Thank you for the comments.

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VM commented 5 November 2015 at 20:29

the content type is the form
data is entered into the form and saved to the database (not a file).

to generate lists of content from the database you would utilize the views.module.

There is a plethora of documentation that you should take the time to read through. What you ask is a very common use (adding data/listing data).

if you need to feed the data from your site to another program then you will have to determine what filetype is needed and research whether drupal can output that file type for you. Most often it can.

One requirement is that a

je1 commented 6 November 2015 at 21:10

One requirement is that a user can see only his entered/saved transactions data.

So when a user logins in and fill the custom content type (using Form as it was mentioned), any insights on how that user can view only his data later (using Views as you recommended)?

Thanks

If you use the content access

nevets commented 7 November 2015 at 00:39

If you use the content access module you can limit the viewing of the content only to the author, site adminstator and other select roles (if needed).