Before you start

Dear All,

My goal is to create a 'ring' of sites that shall maintain separate code base (core modules & add-ons, etc.) , the presentation layer (theme, views, etc.), as well as the users' base (no single sign-on necessary) but altogether shall become the content/taxonomy sharing environment.

All sites are to use the same database where:

- The tables that contain information unique for each site are prefixed - xyz_tablename
- The tables that contain shared information are NOT prefixed - tablename

Hello everyone,

First of all I apologize for the size of this message! Its quite long, but I need to explain my "problem" in order for you to understand it and be so kindt o help me :)
I'll try to make it short:

Situation:
I work with a non-profit social service organization, which has a website and we have a MySQL database where we register our contacts(which we collect in all activities, by emails received, etc..). This is done using a very simple php backoffice.

Right now, we feel its time to improve this to help us in our ever-growing work.The website will get a face lift, and at the same time we want to do a bigger backoffice that allow many of our workers to be able to add/edit/search for contacts. So far so good. Now comes my doubts.
We do lots of activities and events, and we would like to keep a record of attendance. That is, "person X attend event Y on date W".
This is because we would like to have some statistics on which kind of activities have more attendance, where do people contribute more, etc...
It would be perfect if this 'backoffice-contacts' could be the same(or linked) with the contacts gathered through the website('register here boxes').

We would also like to expand this backoffice in the future to help us manage more things in the organization. Not only contacts and events, but also staff, tasks, projects, documents, etc...

Hi!

I have a standalone documentation center which is built entirely in JavaScript. This documentation center contains all my content.

There are many versions of documentation center, in certain parts of this center a SVG viewer and acrobat reader are required to view the centers information.

What i would like is Drupal to manage user access to these documentation centers (Using its role based access control functionality) and then also be able to manage the many different version of this documentation center.

Just like dictionary.com

Can I set up a dictionary for my native language using Drupal

The main will just have a search box like google.com

What sort of modules do I need to aciheve this?

thanks

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