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

[Gaulin, M. <mg...@gl...>]

Hi Shane
I did consider making a sort of "no-op" nexus, to hold the topic that I =
want to have/inherit the extras.  I suspect that the dummy topic would =
show up on the topics list, along with the real one, and that makes me =
not want to go there. =20

The true intent (or "vision") of a nexus is not entirely clear to me, =
and some of the code feels sort of "in between" different points of =
view. I chalk that up to things not be fully implemented yet, but there =
are also spots where things started leaning toward some "specialness" =
for nexuses that probably could have been done more generally for all =
topics (like the extras), or not done for nexuses at all (why not allow =
stories to be submitted to a nexus, if the db says it's ok?).

Assuming you don't care about these issues, the Rating system was pretty =
easy to install. I posted detailed to this list on 12/16/04, and I'll =
send them to you off-list too.

Thanks
	Mark



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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=20
> no one mentioned yet: the topic will not appear in the list of=20
> available topics for story submission, which stinks (for my situation, =

> anyway).  I wish I knew the reason for that restriction... that might=20
> 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"=20
> 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=20
> topic from showing up in the submit.pl topic dropdown is in=20
> getDescriptions(), item "non_nexus_topics-submittable".  The=20
> "non_nexus_topics" prefix certainly means it was done on purpose.
>
> Oh well... I guess the whole topic/nexus thing was not intended to=20
> 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=20
> 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=20
this new topic the original name. check off issubmittable on this new=20
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=20
work? I recall there being some confusion a while back because when you=20
install-plugin it, there's other config work I thought I read somewhere=20
that you have to do, before it'll work properly.

I've also been wondering if it's possible to use it to attaching=20
'ratings' to other things, besides stories...

  Shane


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