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Hi,
I have been asked to put together a website for a small health based group, which requires a relatively simple site comprising of the following requirements.
1) a number of Public pages
2) a Login system that members can self register, but an administrator will have to approve membership
3) a number of private pages ( only to logged-in members)
4) a simple forum / bulletin board where only logged in members can read / post messages.

Hi,

I need to develop a simple website with following requirements: -

1. A form with fields in which employees will input data to. They should select the organization they are inputting the data for (possibly from dropdown) and the data entered in the field should be stored for that organization.

2. Creating a dashboard to display the data as charts and tables for each organization. Each member of the organization should be able to see the data reports for that organization only.

I inherited a site that is built on Drupal platform. it is used to create mobile apps and then the backend gives a url to submit to the apple/google play store.

my question is how on earth do i figure out what tool/suite/mod the original person use to set this up?

When i am logged into backend all i see are the regular Drupal backend editing tools. i can edit aspects of the pages in the app, but as a learning process, how do i track down how this starts?

How is the development environment on Drupal? From my knowledge, Drupal does not have the ability to have multiple pages in a test environment. Is this correct? For the website of our size, we need the ability to have multiple, independent updates in the a development environment, and be able to push live only the portions that are ready/approved to go live. Any contributions will be helpful.

Thanks

Greetings. I'm a longtime (10 years) Joomla user with a need and desire to branch out to Drupal.

I've been reading through all the "Getting Started" materials on this site and would like a few recommendations for:

1) A good book to get me started. Drupal 8 is the direction I'll be heading. I'm ok with php, css, etc.

2) A good hosting service. (I currently use SiteGround which does a good job with Joomla but I'm certainly open to suggestions.)

Thanks much.

Hello! I'm John and I'm fairly new to Drupal. I've been learning a lot on my own time and with some mentoring but I'm very much a newbie!

I was looking over some tutorials on Taxonomies. I checked out the forums here (which are great) but I couldn't find much specifically just about Taxonomies (that is probably due to my inability to search the forums properly!).