[thesite] Re: [admin] Grrr! - Comment Complaint - 23-Jan-2002

[.jeff]

rudy,

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> From: rudy
>
> .jeff:
> > i think there are certain categories that the ability
> > to rate should be removed -- news, community news,
> > faq, and jobs.
>
> +1
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before details of implementation are involved we should get signoff from
theforum.

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> this is the "subject to rating" attribute for the
> article category entity:
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> probably it will be another column in the CATTYPE
> table, but a few more of these, and we may need a
> separate table
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i'm open to discussing the database architecture that supports this.

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> jeff, showing/hiding the rating radio buttons would be
> driven by this column -- don't let's hardcode the
> categories, okay?  ;o)
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i'd only do that in the interim, but i'm not going to do that until i get
signoff from theforum.

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> also, is "show articles on home page" still hardcoded?
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yes, as are a few other related queries throughout the site.  it shouldn't
be too difficult to track them down and fix them though.

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> when's a good time to launch the CATTYPE project?  i
> think it would be easy to isolate, but that's a guess,
> and you code jockeys would have to estimate the total
> impact on the code first...
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well, i'm fine with launching at least the theoretical discussion of the
cattype project now.  i think there are still some questions that need to be
answered before i can estimate the impact on the code.  in other words, i
think there's more work to do than just mark a few categories as not
supporting ratings.  i think we need to discuss how categories are marked
for inclusion in the category dropdowns, which ones can have ratings, and
which ones don't show up on the homepage (among other things i'm sure i'm
forgetting).

thanks,

.jeff

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