Drupal 7.x

Hello,
I'm wondering if it is possible in a Drupal site to show a different front page for different roles? I'd want one page to show when people come to the site and then when they login, I'd like to show a different page if they have a certain role. The other option is to have them redirected to a certain page upon login. How would either or both of these things be done, if they can be done?
Thanks,
Bruce

I am looking to gauge interest in a usergroups api module. The module would be purely for developers to take advantage of in order to group users and then take actions on them. We currently are using this type of setup with a couple of different modules and run into this issue all of the time.

Backend/Defining groups:
Every user is part of multiple groups:
- they are part of the user group with their uid as the identifier (they are the only member of this group).
- they are part of a role group where the rid is the unique identifier for the group
- if you use organic groups, they are part of some group there.
- if they have posted a comment then they are part of the commenter group,
- If you collect profile information/address information, user's from a certain country or state is a group of people.
- etc, etc, Every user can be in any number of groups and the groups that are possible are pretty innumerable (extendable by API to create different group types).

Use cases:

Hi

I need to port a web form that connects to a remote service. The remote service can take up to 70 seconds to respond. Our standard web form is implemented using Javascript/AJAX/DHTML as follows

onsubmit: (assume the form is valid)
1) hide the form
2) display some sort of progress bar or busy animation
3) make an AJAX call to my remote service
4) if (remote service returned an error ) redisplay the form, along with the server error message
5) else display response from server.

I need to implement this in Drupal. For security reasons, we want to make the connection made from our Drupal server and not from the users web browser. I am having a lot of trouble. I based my code on the "ajax_example_submit_driven_ajax()" example. Maybe this was not a good example to start from?

Building the form and validating where easy, I can not get the ajax code to work the way I want. I do not know how to implement the "hide" in drupal so what I did was wrap the entire form, add my form elements. I added an extra "error box" element, and define the ajax. My idea was

a) when submit begins, disable the form elements (I could not figure out how to get this to work)
b) if I got an error back, enable the form elements, and display the remote server error in the "error box" element

Dear Forum,

In Drupal 7, how do I view images using the Private file system, without using an image field? I tend to upload images into my Private files directory using FTP or IMCE, and insert them into the node body using IMCE. Viewing the node, the image url is converted to the private "system etc" path, however the image is not displayed (not found). There don't appear to be any permission settings for viewing private files. In Drupal 6, I was using the private_download module for this. Thank in advance for any help!

searchable event calendar? is there a good one out there, thanks.

Hello,
After installing Drupal 7 , I am trying to add new modules via the administration screen (Home » Administration » Modules) I have an option (Install from a URL) with a text box that specifies the URL, once I provide the URL for my module (say http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/ubercart-7.x-3.0-beta3.tar.gz) and then click install on the following screen I get an error saying: