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7/24/2009 5:21 PM
 

Hi, I did a huge post earlier with lots of questions but it's not appeared on here after a few hours so perhaps it got lost., so I'll try again.

I'm after help with creating pages for racer profile. There will be an ever expanding list of racers, and each will have the following items:

  • Basic information - I want this in a set format for a standard look, with stuff like home town, race series, year of birth, etc
  • An nterview
  • A table with race results
  • Many race reports per rider with a feed into RSS
  • A photo gallery
  • Ideally I'd like each racer to be able to access and upload their own info, we a moderator approving, but as a minimum I need the race reports to be uploadable by racers - the other one-off info is less changeable so not as important

I've found that the module seems to be set to a single type (such as file upload, profile) per repository. Having had a big mess with options I'm on three:

1. A single repository with a category per racer and sub-cat per item... but I can't seem to tailor the sub-cat types so unless anyone can tell me otherwise this seems to be a strike-out

2. A repository per rider, the a category for each item, but again same problem as above

3. A repository per item (i.e. basic info, race reports, photos, etc) with a category per racer. But how do I work this? I'm thinking I need a dnn.menu item per racer then somehow place all the info from all repositories wher I want them on the page, and each can have RSS feed plus moderating.

4. Are there any other ways of skinning this cat? My brain's fried trying to figure it out, and I'm not really comfortable with editing code or getting too techie these days.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Susie

 
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7/27/2009 5:00 PM
 

Hi Susie.
Your requirements are pretty specific, and the Repository is a very generic 'document-centric' module for uploading some data, which can include a file and an image, and is flexible in it's display through the use of a templating engine so that it can be 'tweaked' to some degree to be of use in multiple scenarios (deep breath...)

Your requirements scream for a custom module, you have multiple 'categories' of information, rider data, race data, race results, interviews, photos, etc. A generic, single-purpose module like an articles module, or the repository are only going to take you so far.  If you were going to be the sole proprietor of the data, where only you were going to be entering the data,  you could get away with it by consolidating data from multiple sources using HTML, tables, etc.  But the fact that you want others (racers) to upload data .. I think you're just asking for a maintenance nightmare if you go that way.

Sorry for the negative post. I know you have a limited budget, but I honestly think someone's going to have to write some code to end up with what you really want based on your requirements.

 

 
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7/28/2009 7:31 AM
 

Then again, I may be wrong.  I took a look at your site ... VERY nice site btw .. I think you may be able to do something really nice with a combination of modules.  I received your email and will get back to you with some module / design ideas shortly.

 
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