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I've been looking for a solution for our company (a doctors surgery) internal intranet solution and think Drupal is the one. Can I just check with ya'll which modules would be appropriate for the following functions of our intranet?

Central file storage of protocols/procedures
We need to have multiple admins upload/move/delete files and everyone to be able to read them. We also need to be able to structure the storage into folders and if possible to be able to restrict access to folders according to user roles/permissions. I'm wondering if Filestore2 will fit the bill

Ability to alert users to new uploads to the Intranet
If it's possible to have users alerted to new documents being uploaded then that would be great. We would ideally need to be able to select whether the alert was sent at the time of upload

Internal/external contacts
We need 2 global contact directories, one for internal and one for external contacts, that can be categorised, say by department or company. Both need to be searchable. I've seen the Contact directory module but it doesn't give much info on what it can actually do, so I'm unsure of that at the moment.

Holiday calendar
We need this to be viewable by all but only editable by those with the appropriate permissions. It would be nice if we can style different types of event, say with different colours. The Events module seems like it might fit the bill, but doesn't appear to handle recurring events. Also, is it possible to have it display a day or a week at a time by default?

I created the data base. But the instructions It says to update the config.php file. But I don't have that file in the download. Where do I get this file?

Hi, I'm new to this forum but I've been familiar with Drupal CMS for half a year. It's awesome, but now I'm working on different project and I have to ask experienced Drupal users for more details.

I'm planning my own website. Homepage with info about me, my interests. With my articles and portfolio. And contact form.

I know that drupal operates on taxonomy. What I know that portfolio will be static stand-alone page linked through menu. But menu is a problem. I've seen templates with menu as tree. I don't want this. Here's the picture from graphic editor of my design.

Menu is on the top of the page. Main Page, Articles, Portfolio, About me, Contact. It won't make tree or dropdown list.

And one thing more - I will need CMS behavior for Articles and About me departments. If I recall correctly, Drupal organises "entries" on one main page. But I don't want that in Articles. I want ellegant list of my articles in 2 or 3 groups / lists. Just titles, with links and short summary. After click - every article with ability to comment.

"About me" page would have floated div's with links and corresponding images to Literature I like, Films, My family, Info about me and my stuff. So nothing standard - I want just functionality - design is my own and it is different on every page.

I'm asking because I worked with Drupal and couldn't find way to omit ugly menutree and sumaries of articles. I want engine to manage my content, not to automate layout and design or spoil it. :( Will I be able to use Drupal for my website?

Reading through the forums here and changelog, its appartant that V-4.7 has many architechtural advantages over previous versions, so I have installed it.

1- Problem: It appears that V-4.7 is not backwards compatible for some modules and themes. Is there a compatibility list available.? I am still in planning stages of importing a 1000 + page website, but need some guidance as to which resources are available for 4.7.

2- I am somewhat confused about the versions of 4.7 vis:

I'm wondering: Can Drupal import Invision Power Board topics/forums/etc into the Drupal forum? I've seen the database conversion instructions, but from what I see all this does is import your users. If you cannot do that, then is there any other forum software you can import posts/etc. into? (ex: convert IPB to PhpBB> Import PhpBB Database into Drupal Forum) - Thanks

I am going to be making a trading / exchange website where users can swap, sell, buy and trade items.

I came across this website http://www.readitswapit.co.uk

Could Drupal do something like this?