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Hi Guys

I am just putting together a site using Drupal for the first time. I am also wanting to build in ecommerce and erp modules. So I want to know several questions and hope you can help me.

1. Do the ecommerce and erp modules interact with each other. i.e. if I sell a product in ecommerce does that register under erp? If a new customer is created in ecommerce does that then create a new erp customer? etc.

Hello. I have some questions and suggetions.

Do I have to preview forum posts each time I make a new one?
Is the theme on Drupal.org available for download?
Why is the attitude of some of your users so bad? I was going to skip Drupal because of the mean people in your community and IRC. I know come on, YOU DON'T win users by trying to be so "pro" and unfriendly to "newbies".

Will I be able to update from Drupal RC1 to Final version?

Could someone here give me a (recipe book) for to build a social networking site, i.e.
1/ Feature of a social networking site that can be accomplished with drupal's modules
2/ Features that cant or not yet can be accomplished with drupal's modules

I realise that social networking sites are always bag of all-sorts so please dont be cynical with the responses.

Nick

I first want to clarify my smarts....I know enough about html and javascript to be dangerous (meaning yes several times I have completely deleted things). I have maintained a couple of websites using Frontpage but want to take it a level up. I do understand the mysql and php again enough to be dangerous, what I am trying to say here is that I am no expert but I'm trainable :)

Would Drupal fit my needs for:

craft related website that I want to be able to upload complete patterns, making them printable to users. Will I be able to upload short videos for example: how to so a single crochet etc. ? They would be short little videos. I'm not really that interested in having a forum but having a comments features, which I did see is very doable with Drupal and of course a blog.

Also I want to know if I uploaded into a theme a logo, does this top portion show on each and every page (I want it to) along with the menu so that no matter where a user goes they can easily navigate around the site (I think this is one of the best features of Drupal but again I don't want to assume this so a yes that is what Drupal is for would be great)

I did try and read everything but I could not really find answers to these questions. I know these may sound like silly questions but I'm a chicken and maybe I just need a little hand holding. I do not currently use any CMS and yes I have taken a look at others but to be honest, the reason I am going to give Drupal a try is because one thing continually pops up about it....stability which to me means that if people visit my site and it's down alot, then that means alot will not be coming back. Thanks for any help.

Hello!

I just this drupal system and i would like to know more before i install it.

So Drupal can do the following: ?

- if a user register on the site, he or she join automatically a specified group?
- Can i add more groups to downloads category (for example: trial group and vip group can able to download from a specific downloads category)

I tell you what i would like to:

As I've received a number of questions regarding how we integrated the e-commerce component of memberships on concreteideas.com with aMember software, I've posted an overview on my blog:

http://www.delandreville.com/2006/12/20/drupal-ecommerce-for-memberships/