[Theforum] Structure of the directory tree

Simon Coggins ppxsjc1 at nottingham.ac.uk
Tue Jan 29 14:16:54 CST 2002


[Moved over from the IA list]

> > I can see how the search could then pick up on these,
> > but what about the categories? Would the keywords all
> > be the same as category names?
>
> not necessarily -- some keywords could match categories, and some could be
> outside the category architecture

So a link would belong in one category, but have several keywords. The
search would pick up on the keywords but otherwise they wouldn't be
used. Is that right?

> > At the moment any one link can occupy several categories (The link only
> > exists in one place but it can be assigned to more than one category.
>
> good idea
>
> > This is going to cause problems with multiple admins (if one admin
> > edits the link it will change everywhere).
>
> well, yes, but that's to be desired, right?   ;o)

I'm just not sure what would happen if two editors tried to alter the same
link at the same time. Also, if editor A approves a link that's been
submitted to several categories, it would automatically appear in the
others too, even if it isn't necessarily suitable for all the categories
it is submitted to.

> > Maybe it would be better to have a one-to-one link to category
> relationship.
>
> without making a big deal about this, i think you meant many-to-one (links
> to categories) instead of many-to-many (links to categories)

Yeah, sorry that's what I meant.

> personally, i think if we're going to have categories at all, it should be
> many-to-many

I'm not disagreeing, I just want to get things straight in my head before
I start coding anything...

Cheers,

Simon




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