Matchmaker module?
April 30, 2008 - 8:43pm
May 1, 2008 - 8:32am
Couple Thoughts
First, are you trying to have a forum or a system to link churches and pastors? This is an important distinction to make because a forum is an implementation while asking for a system to link pastors and churches is a set of requirements. And, one that I wouldn't implement with a forum.
Here's how I would do it, off the top of my head. I'd have 2 different content types in drupal and I'd add on fields of information I'm looking for with cck. Then, I'd use views with exposed filters and fastsearch to make them searchable.
This would give you the basic functionality to input churches and pastors while making the system searchable. I'd put a lot of thought into the fields on each node type.
To give more detail than this I'd need to know more requirements. In any case, this is something fairly easy to build with drupal.
Matt Farina
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www.innovatingtomorrow.net
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May 1, 2008 - 9:18am
Well..
Thanks for the direction Matt.
First of all there are 2 different areas to the site. One is completely hands off. If a church has a position they want to post, they post it to a job openeings forum. If a minister or other staff member is looking for a job they post their contact info. Anyone can look at either set of listings.
Then there is another portion of the site that needs to be set up so that ministers can post their information privately, so that only the site administrators can see it.
This is so the ministers can protect the fact that they are looking for a new position. Some pastors, as I am sure you can imagine, don't want their church to know they are looking to move on. To this end, they need to be able to submit their resume privately.
We then need the ability to search for these confidential applicants based on certain criteria specifieds by a church, age, education level, job title, experience, etc. The search needs to yield results which make it easy for the person (1 secreatry) to tally the ressults and send the appropriate resumes to the church.
Does that make better sense? I have a cobbled together verion of it here. The forum is working fine, it's the searchable private stuff that is most important to get functioning.
~Phil
May 1, 2008 - 12:04pm
link doesn't work
The link doesn't work that you sent me to.
Honestly, I wouldn't use a forum for this. You can use an access control module to make all of the pastors information controlled by roles. Just make it so certain user roles are the only ones that have access to that node type.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
I am working on a subdomain site for the Baptist Convention of Maryland / Delaware to use to match ministers with churches.
There will be 2 sections of the site. One will be forum based, churches can post their positions and ministers can post their resumes and contact info.
The second section will allow ministers to fill out a profile (job history, education, age, marital status, etc) confidentially and then have those paramaters be able to be searched and matched up with that a specific church is looking for. Much the way match.com or eharmony would match up potential romantic partners.
Is there a drupal module out there that already does this? Is there some other way to do it? DO I need to invent the wheel for this one?
Any help would be appreciated!
~Phil