From: dan f. <fl...@xm...> - 2001-02-24 21:34:37
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I had originally sent this before the mailing lists failed, and have never received a response to my questions.. the questions are fairly trivial, though the solutions do not seem to be immediate to me. Please give me a few pointers... thanks... /flikx ===========[original message]========================= From: dan flickinger <fl...@xm...> To: sla...@li... Subject: Seclevels, Sections, and never-ending stories... Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:56:58 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012319565800.06236@aspen.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: RO X-Status: S Hopefully these are not too many RTFM questions.. please understand that I attend a university full time, have three jobs, have four volunteer positions and admin a slash-site... and therefore have no time. :) Anyways, a few questions: (1) Security levels for authors What are some good standard levels for different types of authors? I.E. main authors (core group), site section authors, temp. authors, and others? I usually have my authors with a level of about 500 or so. At what thresholds do certain features activate, and can this be changed? In short, what are good levels for my core group of authors (to access story submissions, post to the front page, etc.), and site section authors (that only need to check section submissions and post stories.) (2) Site sections What exactly is the difference between article based and issue based? (or should this be obvious?) Also, is it worth the effort to have the appearance of site sections be drastically different from the rest of the site? I have a few departments that want to make their site section look more like their own web page. At bare minimum, which block do I need to change in order to get each section to have a logo at the top right? (like on slashdot) (3) Never-ending stories Is there a way to post a story in a section that never/seldom gets updated or moves, yet still retains the ability to post to said story? Like a "secret" sid.. is there a way to make a story appear at the top of a secret sid? It's not a big deal to lose comments after the normal period, though I would like to have a couple "stories" (for site help, etc.) stay there for good. Is there any way to do this? If this requires a few SQL commands, I'm up for it. Thanks... /dan flickinger flikx (on slashdot, SOS, and elsewhere) http://sos.asuu.utah.edu -- One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us. |
From: Jason H. <ja...@ne...> - 2001-02-25 01:04:17
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dan flickinger wrote: I don't have all the answers, but I'll answer what I know. > (2) Site sections > What exactly is the difference between article based and issue based? (or If you find an answer to this.. let me know. I don't know either, it's been buggin me. > web page. At bare minimum, which block do I need to change in order to get > each section to have a logo at the top right? (like on slashdot) The header block is the one that holds the html for the logo. Just rename (copy) the block and edit.. see this for a reference: http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/15/1931221&mode=thread jh -- Jason Huckaby Maine Vertical 62 Lawn Ave. Portland, ME 04103 (207) 415-3142 |
From: Rob 'C. M. <ma...@sl...> - 2001-02-25 02:55:58
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> > (2) Site sections > > What exactly is the difference between article based and issue based? (or > > If you find an answer to this.. let me know. I don't know either, it's > been buggin me. I swear I answer this once a week to someone ;) Issue Mode and Article Mode is a feature that I never really used on Slashdot. It was based on the idea that some publications are "Article" based: Slashdot for exmaple. Each article is a single unit, and there really is no connection between them. Other publications are "Issue" based... say, Time magazine. An "Issue" is a bunch of articles, connected by the day that they were released. The intent behind this was to allow Slash to have more flexible homepage layout for "Issue" based publications, as well as improved navigation tools for finding other articles that are all in the same issue. None of that was every fully implemented. Really, the only thing that article mode and issue mode affect is the Older Stuff box. Article Mode creates the link to "Older Articles" and Issue Mode creates the link to "Yesterday's News". Hope that makes sense. -- Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda | ma...@sl... | http://CmdrTaco.net 'Sometimes when I pick up the guitar, I'm stunned at how well I play. But I'm equally good at lots of other things.' -- Townshend |