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Hi everyone,

I am about to embark on a project and I am wondering how viable Drupal is a solution to my problem.

I have a site that needs a research database which is password protected. users will log in and then be able to submit a research project into the datbase or search the database based on category of research, who created it, money values etc.

What I am wondering is it possible to create a searchable database of research that users can log in and contribute to and also search.

Hi--
Am new to all of this. Bought Mercer's book- not realizing it was old-- and have been blocked at page 39-- as others of you have-- have tried all instructions on posts I've been able to find about this problem and still cannot get past step 8. I realize this is an old problem so am hoping someone out there has posted an answer/solution to a "denied access" message at step 8, loading database on page 39 of David Mercer's book-- Drupal, Blogs etc...
Have tried version 6.10 using apache2triad 1.5.4 as well-- no luck

I am planning to build a Drupal 6 site, and would greatly appreciate suggestions on how to achieve a specific type of service with it.

Basically, I'm using CCK to build listings for businesses in a specific "category." I want to display those businesses, one per page, with a number of "blocks" of aggregated content below them.

Specifically, let's say you have "Bob's Big Boy." It will have a general custom node, with location, phone, standard business information. But it should also contain a number of "links" to places that mention this business elsewhere. There might be a blog or two. There might be a twitter tag or account. Maybe the results of a daily web search. In all, there could be a dozen or more such "feeds" to be pulled in for each of (perhaps 500) businesses.

I'm hoping to have a way to store, say, 100 or 1000 of the past feed entries in the drupal database, so the pages load quick and don't have to do anything funny. I expect basically all of these data sources to be RSS or something basically similar. And I do expect to have other Drupal features enabled for those business listings, such as comments or ratings.

Before starting a new development, I wonder if I could use Drupal to:
- build a multimedia playlist (e.g.: from Admin part, I upload mp3 songs: "contentA", "contentB" and "contentC".);
- build a users list (e.g.: from the Admin, I create 3 users: "user1", "user2" and "user3" with name, login, password,...);
- provide access rights (e.g.: from the Admin, I indicates that user1 will be able to see all the contents, user2 will access to content1 and content2 and user3 will access only to content1);

My uncle wanted me to redo his site http://geodatavision.com

He doesn't want to do anything special he wants to reorganize everything and change the overall look of the site with some new CSS. I am fairly new to Drupal but I would like to use it for this project. I was hoping to get some ideas of selling points to get him to move away from static pages.

The ones I have right now are he plans on adding features that will require a database of customer accounts and the ease of adding content.

Hi everyone,
My name is Dan and I'm new to the Drupal community. I look forward to helping advance this great package.

I was wondering if you guys can help me find out whether or not Drupal would be good for my idea of mainstreaming the t-shirt company I work for.

Basically we have an art department that creates and logs t-shirt designs for our salespeople to sell. I want to create a a site that will bridge the gap between the art department and the sales people. Here are some of my criteria:

1. Artist's should be able to log their designs and upload a jpeg for sales people to use. I want to be able to add more fields that will say the Artist name, date created, shirt color its on, techniques, log #, etc.

2. There will be one person that will be in charge of moving over these images+info to an "approved for sales" when the designs get approved from our licensor. When these get approved we need to be able to specify certain sales people to be able to sell it. Not all of our sales people should be selling the same designs.