Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-08 Thread Heather Rayl
Thanks for all the input! I will take a closer look at Drupal, and check out the post you referenced, Anson. We might actually have the expertise in house to do a Drupal implementation But I think our next step is to write an RFP, since someone outside could probably do it a lot faster than

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-07 Thread Richard, Joel M
Heather, Since Jason wasn't very verbose in his response :) I thought I'd elaborate. Drupal is a good choice for this kind of activity. It has a number of features that come ready or nearly ready to do what you're looking to do. With two thousand modules, you're also likely to get other needed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-07 Thread Parker, Anson (adp6j)
Hi Heather, I recently got handed a filemaker pro database with relational content in it - this added some excitement because this is beyond the scope of your average csv import Using node import with drupal allowed me to assign the fields that were relational and do a sweet import with dublin

[CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-06 Thread Heather Rayl
** apologies for cross-posting ** Hi there, We have a database of performers that we use in our libraries. Currently, the data is stored on one person's computer in a file maker pro db that only this one person has access to (Hooray for legacy systems!). In order for the rest of the staff to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-06 Thread Fowler, Jason
Drupal Jason On 11-09-06 4:20 PM, Heather Rayl 23e...@gmail.commailto:23e...@gmail.com wrote: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Hi there, We have a database of performers that we use in our libraries. Currently, the data is stored on one person's computer in a file maker pro db that only

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for products/price ranges for a database of performers

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Heather Rayl wrote: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Hi there, We have a database of performers that we use in our libraries. Currently, the data is stored on one person's computer in a file maker pro db that only this one person has access to (Hooray for