Noob Question: Implementing Site Structure [#348481]

I know how I would like to my website to be structure but it is pretty complicated. Visit the following link to see the various content types I would like to structure:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgscp3rr_271f43dj2cs

The above link to my PowerPoint document is also attached.

How do I do that? What should be Containers and what should be Categories? I'm still confused on the distinction. What Content Types should I have?

I've been reading through the documentation and simply cannot get it figured out.

Also, how do make it so when a professor creates a resource or a course, it automatically assigns the subject to correlate with the subject of the professor?

Comment	File	Size	Author
	Website Structure.ppt	155.5 KB	philbar

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Comment #1

philbar CreditAttribution: philbar commented 18 December 2008 at 01:54

To be a little clearer. I need to create the following hierarchy:

Institution - Contains the following: Professor (User Role), Student (User Role), Course (Organic Group)
Subject - Contains the following: Professor (User Role), Resource (Container of Content), Course (Organic Group)
Resource - Contains the following: Document (Content Type), Video (Content Type), Audio (Content Type), Image (Content Type)

Comment #2

falk_g CreditAttribution: falk_g commented 18 December 2008 at 11:14

If you go with the category plugin (which I advise against unless you know what you are doing - alpha status not actively maintained etc pp)
With your structure you make one probably silent container and then make Institution, Subject and Resource categories that you attach to the silent invisible container. The problem is that you are not allowed to add normal nodes (content types) to a container - only to a category (at least in the 5.x version don´t know if that changed in D6)
Your "Resource" in Subject would also be a Category
I have not worked with organic groups to say how they work but if they are just nodes then you can easely attach them to your category.

But quite generally with a flat structure like you need its probably easier to go without the category plugin.

I wonder when the day comes when somebody realizes that this plugin is HUGELY important to core drupal functionality (yes its possible to live without it but its clearly not easier)...