RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] Mike's News Module

[Jonathan M. <jon...@jo...>]

Category should be a table.. Then it will be easily expandable to support
other modules.

Lets say you can easily imagine 

Htmldocuments

Articles

Announcements

Blogs

And others being able to use the categories table in one way or another
later on.

 

Personally, I think one thing people could think about when working on
modules, that is a way of thinking "how do I make my modules today pave the
way to 1.6 and easy migrations to alllthe power 1.6 will give" is to think
about a few things.

Content in modules should not nessesarily be owned by a module. The module
in a specific page is just where the item was entered and most likely
displayed most often. Anything you can do to extend the items ability to
leave the module and become it's own entity that is available to the system
and not just module, is going in the right direction.

 

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From: rai...@li...
[mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf Of Mike
Stone
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:13 PM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: Re: [Rainbowportal-devel] Mike's News Module

 

We can do that. Category works for us.  The department codes peace is not
started yet, so it can come from anyplace, I think my design was to come
from db table.  I have handed the project over to my assistant as her first
Rainbow Module, I thought this would be a good starting point for her, as I
have been doing all the rb modules my self up until now.

 

Mike Stone
Director of Computer Information Services
Kaskaskia College
27210 College Road
Centralia, IL 62801
618-545-3201
www.kaskaskia.edu

>>> mar...@ho... 4/22/2005 05:50:08 >>>

" I am currently working on custom modules for internal use.  We may release
them after they reach version 1.0.0 News Module - This sets the current
announcements module and adds a module setting for Department Code to
display, and Allows the news to show up in more then one department.  So on
the News page we show PressReleases, and in the Admissions Section we show
just Admissions, and Baseball page shows news about Baseball, and
Basketball, yet the new shown on the Sports Page shows news from all sports
and so on."

 

Mike, just a quick design thought, 

 

1) this module would be more generic if you change the phrase "Department
Code" above into "Category".  Its a great idea!

2 Where do the department codes come from?  1) Another database table? -
"Departments" or a new "News Categories"  table.  2) A comma-separated list
the user creates on the edit-module properties page?