General discussion

I am playing with using drupal for an ecologically-friendly products site. Ideally i want two kinds of users:

Is it available? Cafepress has an easy way to create books. Drupal.org could make some money on it. I'd buy it in an instant. (I wouldn't mind a mug either.)

Do you need a program mailing list manager program like "mailman" in order for the listhandler module to be useful? Or can the listhandler module be used as a standalone list manager program itself? I can't quite figure from the description what kind of functionality listhandler provides. Thanks.

Just a note to say thanks to the developers and documenters and supporters of Drupal. I've been trying to find a flexible, easy-to-use CMS and website development platform for the past couple of years. Don't know how I missed Drupal but I'm sure glad I found it.
It's so easy to theme, to add or pare away functionality, to enter/edit content, to build menus... I can't say enough good things about this product.

I have looked around for a method for inserting a saved, fixed block of text in the body of a node. The concept is like this - I think it would be useful for consistency to have a way to choose a saved text block, say from a dropdown near the "body" section of a node, and have Drupal automatically insert this into the textarea. That way, for applications of Drupal where you are asking users to be consistent in their writing, it is a way of guiding them in that direction.

Could be for the sections of a book, or, a complex table you repeatedly use, etc.

Kind of like a "clipboard" Drupal has that you can pick what you want to paste in.

I thought it might be possible to use the textile filter as a base, and enter certain strings into the body to indicate that you want Drupal to insert something (kind of like you can do with some wiki macros.) For example:

{clipboard:Report-01}

... which when saved converts and is expanded out into:

TITLE
Dummy text, dummy text. 
etc.

Is there a way to do this now, and if not, does anyone have any ideas on where to start?

Cheers,
Rick Cogley :: Tokyo, Japan

I have a Sharepoint site that allows people to upload various documents. Everything is arranged in directories so for example, there may be a hierarchy like Product->Version->Release Notes.doc. The site will grow to contain more information and functionality such as request forms. I am looking at alternatives to Sharepoint that may be more flexible down the road. My first step, though, is to mimic what we have now. Can Drupal do something like Sharepoint with the document directories?