Drupal 7.x

I've built at least 10 websites using Drupal, but have yet to do something this complex. I've been trying to figure this out for a few days and thought I'd post this to see if anyone might be able to share some tips.

Here's what I'm trying to do:

Let users mark task nodes as completed as they read or do activities from sections of books

A task would be a node with:
- node/term references to books/chapters/sections
- user reference to user who the task belongs to
- other fields: a title/description, date to complete, data completed, completed/not, etc.

While there is a global taxonomy of books, chapters, and sections, each user needs their own tasks because they will have unique due dates and be completed at different times.

So the question is, how can I automatically create the task nodes for each user when they select that they want to complete a book?

For example, let's say a user is reading Book A. They select Book A and it automatically creates "Chapter 1: Section 1" and "Chapter 1: Section 2" task nodes (reading or activity). Then, when they mark those tasks as completed, "Chapter 1: Section 3" and "Chapter 1: Section 4" will be created for the user to complete. These task nodes will be created in order based on the taxonomy of book/chapters/sections.

I am creating a biographical database of historical photographers. I am not a programmer, alas, and am learning drupal (thru WebMatrix) for my first adventures in building a website. Hello world!

I don't yet have my info in SQl, so I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, but I'd like to toss this issue out. I have ~85,000 entries in a spreadsheet. Each entry contains the following:

Name (comprised of Title, First, Family, and Suffix fields)
Nationality
Date (either life dates, or dates of activity)
Public repositories who report owning samples of the photographer's work (I have indexed about 20 large museum/library collections)
Bibliographic sources such as other academic databases or websites, or published books or journals with information on the photographer.
Biography (a free text field for further development once I can nail down some core facts!)
Places active (also not currently much used, but will be important going forward.)

I will have questions and will need advice from the community on each of these in the future (so thanks in advance to all for any insights, sincerely!)

In my fresh D7 install, v7.0, there are no content types, "you have not created any content types yet." I created type "Page," and figured this was the way D7 worked. Then I saw some documentation that Story should be included in D7, and the missing content types was a bug. Should I add my own "Page" and "Story" types or a patch? Note, I used profile displaysuite.

When I go to my administration page (http://www.myurl.com/drupal/?q=admin) it tells me access denied. It does not allow me to even log into my account. I was on there earlier today and I can't figure out why this is happening!

Hi all

I'e got a question about the menu system in Drupal. the first is wording, enable/disable Verses visible/hidden. in Drupal disable=hidden instead of disabling the menu item, confusing.

So to my question how do I disable(not hide) a menu item?

I need an item to be the parent of some child items but I dont want the parent item to navigate to a page when clicked.

Thanks for any help

Marcel

Hi all, apologies if what I'm asking is covered. I tried searching but could not find something that I understood.

I'm working on a site for my students to view code samples for the various classes I teach (python, HTML/CSS, etc). For each lab, I've created several sub-sections that contain example programs related to the lab. Here is an example page:

http://timfreilly.com/class/?q=node/3