Post installation

I have looked at the documents and I have done some search but I am still very cluess on how the taxonomy system works. I understand the heirarchy part. What I do not understand is how do I link it to my stories. If I have " story A" how can I link it to vocabulary A, B, and C (or even A).

I set up a test site and installed ecommerce last night.

It looks like the ticket if I want to sell some kind of product. What I want is to charge some of my members a membership fee. It's easy to set up the recurring payment in paypal, but then connecting that to drupal so it automatically uses the continued payment to govern their membership in a given role ... that's what I want.

The "submanage" module only receives notifications of recurring payments. It doesn't help with initiating the recurring payment. Plus, I wasn't able to find a module already there to help with this. And I find this odd, because if you're going to manage subscriptions there ought to be a way to initiate the subscription, yes?

My question is .... how?

And secondly, how to connect the subscription that's managed to governing membership in a role?

Here's what I'm thinking:-

Set up a cron task that checks for a) users who have the given role, b) do not have recurring payments. For them, initiate a request for the appropriate membership fee.

A second cron task might check if they have (b) but not (a), and automatically grant them the role.

A third element might be a user hook that, if they match the first condition (have the role but not making payments) then show them a button where they can initiate the payment.

Another element is to have waivers for allowing some users to have the role, but not make payments. This would cover people who live in countries other than the ones paypal can handle payments.

The usual method, like explained here: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/html_no3.htm
does not work, eventhough linking external css works fine.

Could you please share how you attach your js files? Been pulling my hair out trying to make this work. Using version 4.6 and xtemplate.

i am running drupal on my website http://www.stock.roxr.com/dot/ and everything seems to work fine so far....except the forums, for some reason i cant reply to them or post coments on the topics, can you guys tell me what i can do or enable it? i was playing in the settings and i got it workign but then i changed sometihgn and it was disabled.

I have successfully modified my members profile pages but am confused how to customize my Members List... "how do I"...?

(If this is already answered elsewhere, please forgive the post, I HAVE looked and wasn't able to see this)...

thanks!

--HAZ

I need to sort blog entries by user groups. What's the best method?

Project description:

We're sending students overseas, and while they are away we want to provide them with a means to journal their experiences. There's going to be seven groups of students going to seven different continents. I'm planning on using the built in blog module, however I need a method of associating blog posts based on what group the students belong to. For example:

There will be a page devoted to ITALY and I want to show teasers of the most recent blogs of students who are part of the ITALY group.

Here's what I was thinking so far:

1. Taxonomy - I could create some terms and assign them to the blog content type. The downfall is that students would have to assign the correct student group to each of their blog entries. This is not my first choice.
2. Profile Module - I could create a new field using the profile module. Essentially the students would select the student group that they belonged to under their profile. Then "maybe" I could use this information to help sort the blogs. I'm not sure if this will work or not.
3. Unknown solution - Ideally I would like a method of assigning a group to the user's profile so that the students couldn't change what group they belonged to and screw-up the blog sorting.

What are your thoughts? Does anyone have a solution?