Re: [Codestriker-user] Obsolete state

[Craig J. <cra...@pr...>]

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.