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Hi,

I'm brand new to Drupal and these forums. I'm wondering:

With the organic groups module, is it possible to have new postings downlaoded to a widget that sits on peoples computer desktop? I guess it could work this way: Each group has an individual RSS feed. A RSS widget is created that lists these feeds on a mini app running on the desktop. Is this possible? What I mean is, could this be programmed, or is there something fundamental that wuld make this impossible?

Thanks in advance.

Aaron

Hello

This is slightly off topic, however i was hoping to find some help.

My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University Australia. I am currently running a survey at the following address.

https://dcarf.deakin.edu.au/surveys/oss/

The survey is completely confidential and looks at your views and motivations to use Open Source software and to participate in the community.

It looks like the admin sets the visibility for the various user profile fields (both for drupal core and civiccrm module). I'd like to have the user set the visibility for these
fields. Can this be done?

Thanks,

Steve

This will be a site about football cards (dont ask!) and what people have.

What we want to do is have a database behind the shop with all the different cards, each with its own value (the price)

A person can then log on, create a profile and shop for the cards they have. We want then for them to be added to their profile page-along with a total of the points (prices) that all their cards are worth. We then want this to be a displayable amount that we can display anywhere in that persons profile-ie in their forum signature.

OG CiviCRM (og_civicrm) is a module that was written by Killes that torenware updated to 4.6 but does not have an active maintainer currently. I understand that Alan Dixon may willing / interested in becoming maintainer for the module, and I am as well.

I have an update to Drupal 5.1 / CiviCRM 1.6 that I can make available to people if they so wish -- it's not possible to submit a patch at the moment because there's no maintainer. Since attaching files here in the forum is not enabled, here are the contents of the new 5.1 .info and .install files, and a patch file against the 4.6 version of the other files.

og_civicrm.info:
; $Id$
name = OG CiviCRM
description = Provides basic integration between Drupal's organic groups and CiviCRM.
dependencies = og civicrm
package = Organic groups
version = VERSION

og_civicrm.install:
<?php
// ; $Id$

// og_civicrm.install

/**
* Implementation of hook_install().
*/
function og_civicrm_install() {
switch($GLOBALS['db_type']) {
case 'mysql':
case 'mysqli':
db_query("CREATE TABLE {og_civicrm} (
nid INT(11) NOT NULL,
gid INT(11) NOT NULL,
did INT(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (nid, gid, did)
) TYPE=MyISAM
/*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */;");
break;

I am very new to Drupal (5.1) and really like what I have seen so far. The modules and modifications are numerous and I am hoping someone with plenty of familiarity can offer their recommendations. I have had a look around and bracket my suggestions (? where none/confused!) - I'd just like some feedback as to whether there is a better solution or any solution where I have yet to find one, I've seen some modules I've not referred to here but not for 5.1 so maybe they'll release updated versions, maybe not...:

1. I want to focus on users whose post submission, along with comments, will include an upload of a photo +/ embedding a video. I'm kind of stuck on the photo/video thing though - there are a variety of modules out there. Is there a way to rename uploaded files with some logical template like userID-postIDxxx (?)
2. Translation. Great to see localisation with a wide variety of languages which allows Drupal to be used in most parts of the world however is there a solution for content? What if there for someone with spanish localisation who is seeing a page full of english content? Is there even maybe a way/option to filter content based on localisation.. (?). I expect a very small audience however it may be internationally flavoured.
3. Ratings on posts? Reg'd user only, one vote per user. Non-page refresh preferred (voting api,fivestar or maybe vote up/down)