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Subject:    RE: [Slashcode-development] Side effects of making a topic a nexus?
From:       "Gaulin, Mark" <mgaulin () globalspec ! com>
Date:       2005-04-06 19:38:21
Message-ID: EBA3EEF096B29542928098329E1D5FDE027A5A80 () gshqxc01 ! globalspec ! net
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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.  

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



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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