Re: [Krang-general] non-story self contained elements

[Perrin H. <pe...@el...>]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:31 -0500, bs...@he... wrote:
> I have come across an issue while trying to develop a 'poll/survey' component 
> for Krang.  While I do know how much just asking this question pushes the 
> boundaries of 'magazine style web sites' I am hoping some of you may have 
> some interesting ideas/ or comments.

I've done this same sort of thing for sites that Plus Three has
developed.

> I am not quite sure how to accomplish this, without moving too far in the 
> 'menu item for every single type of thing' ala Mambo.  One thought I had was 
> to hack with the source a bit and create a 'Collections' area.  In this area 
> non TopLevel elements could be created, viewed, and stored in a way not too 
> dissimilar from the story management screen.  

You could make these toplevel elements without doing any real harm.
They can even have a no-op for publishing.  The trick is to make a
modified version of StoryLink that will only link to a specific story
type.  We actually discussed this here a while back, but haven't tried
it yet.

I do think there might be value in having something that is lower-level
than a story, but is not media, and can be reused in multiple stories.
That would be a more significant change, and I haven't had a good enough
reason to do it yet.

- Perrin