Re: [Codestriker-user] Obsolete state
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From: Craig J. <cra...@pr...> - 2004-10-13 01:26:24
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On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:09, David Sitsky wrote: > > 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? I think it would be a reasonable feature, certainly not overkill, but not a rare occurance either. > > 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 Would it not be wise to create a state of "obsolete" rather than using "closed"? > 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. And a link from the new topic back to the obsolete ones. Cheers, Craig. |