Drupal for Consultation Business

Hi,

I am looking at using Drupal for a consulting business. I've installed Drupal on a test server and have already confirmed quite a few of the features I want are available in Drupal. However, alot of the features aren't and I such I need advise about whether the features I want are available through modules.

I'd appreciate feedback from the community regarding modules for the following features:

Examples of high profile Drupal Forums

Can someone please point me i n the direction of any HIGH PROFILE forums or chat facilities that are powered by Drupal. Thank would be really really useful, thank you!

Workflows and node specific access rights

Please forgive me, if this is a bad case of RTFM (kindly point me to the FM, if that is the case). I am looking for a way to implement following use case utilizing Workflows module:

Using taxonomy to identify content features

This is more of a conceptual question than an actual support request as I don't really want to go gung-ho into wrangling the taxonomy stuff one way only to find I've used it wrong later on down the line.

Basically (sic), I'd like to use taxonomy terms to identify real estate listing features (e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, inground pool, etc). I really want to leave as much of the term identification as possible configurable to the agent rather than making any of them fixed fields in a form. There are a number of other reasons I want to do it this way, partly so that I can define image icons to each taxonomy term and let the user select/unselect the icons to filter searches in the advanced search screen.

So the question is about how to best group the terms. As there are potentially a large number of term groups that all apply specifically to the listing content-type (e.g. bedrooms, bathrooms, car spaces, land size, cooling/heating, pool, construction types, etc) I would prefer to have an overall "listing features" vocabulary and have the terms grouped inside this. However, there is also the issue where listing feature terms are multi-selectable, but terms within a single group should generally only be single-selectable.

Are there any suggestions as to how this can be best managed?

Drupal.com Manual Slideshow and Look

Does any one know what modules were used for the slideshow or carousel look on drupal.com. I'm just looking for a simple and clean way to setup a slideshow and or carousel without jumping through 1000 steps to get it running. I 've found that JCarousel looks nice but man I'm hearing it's pain getting it configured.

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Lacks of Drupal

I search on cmss today and found at cmsmartix.org and look drupal. I use drupal for a while and I want to ask why these are lack and didnt patch also it these important? or how can I solve or change this?

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix/drupal

I search and find some modules that enables its lack but i cant find these.

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