Re: [Slashcode-development] Side effects of making a topic a nexus?

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Gaulin, Mark wrote:

> FYI, it turns out that making a topic a nexus has a side effect that 
> no one mentioned yet: the topic will not appear in the list of 
> available topics for story submission, which stinks (for my situation, 
> anyway).  I wish I knew the reason for that restriction... that might 
> help me avoid other issues later (esp if I try to work around it).
>
> It seems weird since a topic already has a "story submittable" 
> attribute that you'd think would cover any case were you wouldn't want 
> someone to submit to the nexus topic.  The logic to prevent a nexus 
> topic from showing up in the submit.pl topic dropdown is in 
> getDescriptions(), item "non_nexus_topics-submittable".  The 
> "non_nexus_topics" prefix certainly means it was done on purpose.
>
> Oh well... I guess the whole topic/nexus thing was not intended to 
> deal with a single topic that just needs extras (or, more generally, a 
> single topic that just wants to be a nexus of one).  Maybe the "nexus" 
> concept in "topic_nexus_extras" should be dropped, so any old topic 
> can have extras.

Well why not

a) rename the nexus topic to "myTopic NEXUS"
b) create a new topic, that's a child of the "myTopic NEXUS", and name 
this new topic the original name. check off issubmittable on this new 
topic.

That would give you what you want, right?

> (The extra I'm trying to use is the Rating system.)
>

I've been meaning to try that out. What'd you have to do, to get it to 
work? I recall there being some confusion a while back because when you 
install-plugin it, there's other config work I thought I read somewhere 
that you have to do, before it'll work properly.

I've also been wondering if it's possible to use it to attaching 
'ratings' to other things, besides stories...

  Shane


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