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Asked: 2026-05-22T12:41:09+00:00

So, I’m working on a Drupal 6 project that ultimately replaces a big, complex

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So, I’m working on a Drupal 6 project that ultimately replaces a big, complex Excel spreadsheet with a workflow as such:

  1. Customer books an appointment via the Bookings API
  2. Employee goes to customer and does a bunch of measurements
  3. Employee enters measurements into either an uploaded Excel spreadsheet or a web-based form
  4. Website generates a PDF with measurement sheet and the output from the Invoice module
  5. Customer receives an email with link to watermarked version of PDF.
  6. Customer pays online and receives link to unwatermarked PDF.

My questions are:

  • What is the best way to go about Part 3 (Such that the data can be used by Parts 4-6)? CCK fields and a custom content type?
  • What is the best way to combine content types (I.e., “Measurements” custom content type with “Invoice” content type) into a single PDF?
  • Bonus Marks: Any way to auto-populate Invoice module content types?

Any help will be muchly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up using:

    a. Storm for CRM functionality

    b. Simple Payments for Storm Invoice payment

    c. Print module for PDF output

    d. Calendar (+ Views) for appointment booking (Used internally; stage 1 changed to “employee sets up appointment” in Storm Project)

    e. CCK + Flexifield for the measurement sheet content type

    f. Custom-written module to pass cost values to Storm and automate tasks between Storm/CCK measurement sheet.

    Ubercart really is overkill for simple payment applications. Alas, Simple Payments is pretty poorly supported. If only there was a unified payment API or something…

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