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Does Drupal have an advanced calendar, I know that it has an event.module, but does it support per user calendars. I would like each user to have a personalized calendar. Also does the event module allow for import of i/vCal or other calendar formats? Is this possible with Drupal. Thanks.

Hi,

I must to make tables in SQL SERVER, but i only have scripts for mysql and postgree.

Anybody have that !?

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I'm new to Drupal (coming from MovableType and now WordPress) because I have hit the ceiling on some features of WP. I read this article and it seemed Drupal may be what I need.

Among other features, the one feature a client of mine needs very soon is the ability to do an advanced search by using keywords and selecting multiple categories. I'd want to make two sets of boxes, one for location (Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.) and the other for job description (Painter, Plumber, etc.). I'd want to be able to check boxes:

JOB SEARCH

Location:
[x] Los Angeles
[] San Francisco

Job:
[]Painter
[x]Plumber

So that with Los Angeles and Plumber checked, the search results would show me all jobs in L.A. for Plumbers (and not ALL jobs in L.A. or ALL Plumber jobs).

Is this something Drupal can do? I see the regular search module and I found the "trip search" module (which may do the trick, I just haven't figured it out yet), but maybe someone here can tell me:

1.) Yes, Drupal can do it. Use/edit XYZ module.
2.) No, Drupal can't do this yet, use XYZ CMS.

Any tips, suggestions or links to where I can figure this out would be most helpful. If Drupal CAN do this and you know how and need some work, I'd be happy to hire you to help me convert a site from MT to Drupal.

Hi,

I am currently evaluating Drupal as a possible new CMS for our organisation (our current CMS provider is closing business and we are looking to the Opensource solution for our new one)

Drupal does meet most of our specs but we still have some questions on it. (I won't enter into the detailled list of our specs here as I do not think it is the right place to do so. We will go to a more formal RFP if needed)

I believe I know the answer but just to be on the safe side:

- Is it possible to to access and present the results of SQL querries to external DB within a Drupal page?

- Is there a tool, or is it possible with development, which could extract content in XML for a migration from our current CMS. (if we have the current CMS DB Schema. in MYSQL). We would need to migrate our most needed content and some of their metadata: files and articles which are 'linked' to some categories or folders)

(this will also mean that we will need new content types in Drupal to match our current ones and our needs in regards of content type (I believe it is possible to create new content type with flexinode)

- Is it possible to 'attach' different templates for different 'folders' ? We have the need to build up 'subsites' of our proposed content.The idea is to show the visitors and users a different area within the site so they can visually see that they are in another site (although all the administration of content and rights and content should/could be related to each other. The DB would stay the same).

I'm building a news site at a projected rate of about 15,000 posts per year. Each posts is very lightweight: Title, Body (a few sentences), Source (2-3 words), Categories, and that's about it. There are no comments, no trackbacks, and no images. The challenge I'm facing is strictly volume and performance; the site design is as simple as I can make it. At the moment, I'm running this site with WordPress. The render time for the front page has climbed steadily from 0.1 second to about 1.7 seconds (with just over 2,000 posts in the database). I'm looking ahead and getting concerned.

I know there are caching solutions and may look into them. I'm reluctant to do this because (a) I'm not a programmer, and (b) I'm not convinced that it's a long-term solution.

What I want is an architecture that looks like this:

• a "front page" that displays all posts from the last 30 days.
• links from the front page to each category, displaying posts from the last 30 days.
• some mechanism for moving "current" posts (i.e., < 30 days old) into monthly archives.
• links from the front page to monthly archives.
• Simple search form that will search current posts or everything in the database.

So...my questions are:

• Can Drupal manage a database with tens of thousands of posts efficiently?
• Can Drupal archive in such a way that posts older than 30 days aren't slowing down the display of current posts?
  

Hi!
I'm new here and I must say Drupal seems really good. One thing that worries me though is that spam seems to be a problem. Is automated spam only a big problem when allowing non-logged-in users to post comments?