ProsePoint

do you have a modular tool that can take me close to the prosepoint and still stay Drupal?.

Asked by domineaux

I have a drupal 6.9 blog production site. It is working well, but I would like to have better tools for users to use when they create content. Now I have to physically maintain the site to create a unique look apart from standard Wordpress look.

I think I really need a module or tool that creates different methods of content display and users don't actually have very much say in the matter. The blocks module is a pandoras box for problems, tough enough for me getting blocks right. I couldn't think of let users into blocks.

It appears the prosepoint has such a tool as the pages have a difference appearance. Just the size of blocks can make a big difference.

Anyway, that is all cool. My principal problem I don't want to venture away from Drupal. I love have updates display on the screen each day. I download the updated modules and apply them. Voila, it's done and works great. RE-inventing the wheel doesn't work for me when using a CMS like Drupal.

If I wanted to effciently re-code I would go to MSFT Visual Studio. Coding is fast and competent, it's just tougher to maintain. The modular concept of drupal is a huge time saver for admin of sites.

So... do you have a modular tool that can take me close to the prosepoint and still stay Drupal?.

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Best bengtan (bengtan) said : 		#1

Hi,

Firstly, your question is not clear. What do you mean by 'close to the prosepoint and still stay Drupal'?

However, at the moment, I don't think there is such a modular tool.

ProsePoint is designed to be installed on a new site, and while it's technically and theoretically possible for you to extract components out of ProsePoint for your own use, we don't support that.

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domineaux (domineaux) said : 		#2

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I have nine websites on webservers now using Drupal. I have between 6 and 8 more in the works.

I need to build a blog and one newspaper type site, both of would work well.

Making the blog site (not look so bloggy is one priority).

I have installed the Prosepoint todate. I DL it and spent quite abit of time reading what I could find.

My concern with prosepoint is this. Usually the people I build sites for doing the admin, and I do updates and security patches for them.

I have to carefully do my job in order to assure some of the clowns that are doing the admin... are doing able to do the admin.

I'm not knocking them by that. Someone that is fairly computer literate usually gets the admin job as a side duty.

Well, I try to stay very Drupal. I love the new update tools, because I can just log in to a site and run the modules update tool and find what needs updating. I dl the module and voila I'm done very quickly. I'm not anxious to take on anything that might disturb that little sequence, if that makes sense.

I am trying to save time and still build competent sites. I do like the looks and the way the Prosepoint functions that is why I expressed an interest.

Regardless, I do think you've done a good job with the Prosepoint site. Looks great and it's not boringl.

Thanks for your response

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bengtan (bengtan) said : 		#3

Hi,

ProsePoint is still very much Drupal underneath. It still uses the Drupal update status module.

Each ProsePoint release includes its own version of Drupal modules (ie. cck, views, etc.). but there is nothing to stop you then overriding the ProsePoint versions by installing your own versions into .../sites/default/modules.

If you do that, then you are responsible for your own testing and support, because we do not have the resources to support all possible combinations of versions of modules.

So, I think you can do the same with ProsePoint as you've been doing with Drupal. Just that, hopefully ProsePoint gives you some more functionality, and saves you some time.