Re: [Codestriker-user] Obsolete state

[David S. <si...@us...>]

> 	It would be good to see a drop-down list containing the available
> topics in the "Create new topic" page or a new column in the topic list
> pages containing a "Create replacement topic" or something similar.

I think the latter approach is better.  In fact, if we added a button to 
the bottom of the list screen with "Create replacement topic", then we can 
have a many-to-one association with obsoleting topics.  I am not sure if 
this is realistic, but perhaps someone might want to obsolete several 
topics with a single new topic?  Do you ever see that as being a 
possibility, or is that overkill?

The create topic action would need to be modified, so that when created, it 
changes the obsoleted topics to state "closed".  We'd have to have a new 
db table which records the obsoleted associations, and modify the view 
screens appropriately so that when displaying  an obsoleted topic, we 
display a link to the new topic.

If we can only obsolete a single topic at a time, we'd only need to add a 
new field in the topic table, rather than creating a new table, which 
would make life a bit easier.

> 	Is this functionality easy to add to codestriker or would it take a
> fair amount of work?

Well, its certaintly not trivial, but it doesn't sound too bad either.

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Cheers,
David