Hello Drupal experts,
I need your advice on setting up an "experts" site. We'll have profiles of experts and also articles written by these experts. The profiles part is where I need your help.
The profile page of each expert/author will be a personal bio (education, companies worked for, etc). The problem is, we also want expertise-specific data for each profile/expert type -- eg. a webmaster should be able to select which web technology (AJAX, flash) they've used, whereas a systems administrator would choose the operating systems (Solaris, Linux, Windows) they're familiar with. It's the expertise-specific data that's challenging.
I've thought about this problem a bit and came up with some possible solutions. None of them are completely do-able out of the box... thus the need for this post! Please look over the following options and let me know if they're totally insane or reasonably doable. Also, if there's a much easier fourth option I'm missing, please let me know! :)
Thanks in advance.
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Option 1 -- multiple profiles types
During registration, I would ask "are you a webmaster, network admin or whatever?" and provide a different registration form based on their answer. Consequently, there would be several different profile "types".
It doesn't seem like this is possible with the current drupal technology or maybe I just haven't found it.