Managing Activities on Drupal

This is the second week of our current milestone and I am happy to say that we made a big progress forward. After working for a little while on this Drupal system with my team-mate, we realized that it was quite difficult to do a version control. One of the reason why this was so difficult is because we are working with two different operating systems. We faced numerous issues attempting to install the same system on my team-mate's Windows machine. When we finally got most of the functions to work, we have made many changes to the system that it made the version control process so much more difficult.

We then decided to host the system on a remote server. This way, both of us can make changes to the system simultaneously without having to worry about how to get the changes across to the other host. We will just have to make sure that we create back up copy periodically so that we could revert back to an older setting if need be.

After making the above changes, we decided to go ahead and work on the User/Admin activities. We began by searching for an appropriate Drupal module that are capable of this. We came across more than a couple of modules, such as Signup, webform, etc. The Signup module works closely with the existing module called Event, and it enables users to sign up for an event created by an administrator. This module seems to work perfectly well, however, we still need to figure out how to get this to work more closely to that of the mock up designs.

Another module we are experimenting with is called Webform. This module allows to create multiple field types. Using this module, we were able to create field types of an activity. The types that we made include start and end date, publish date, amount of kukui nuts earned, etc. We are still looking to find out a way to combined the above mentioned modules to create a system similar to that of the mockups.

Overall, it is a pleasant experience to be able to work on this system on a remote server. I feel that we are now much more efficient in our development. I hope keep up the work and finish the project by the end of the semester.