> Paul and I have been working on a forum object for FarCry which is based
> on the nested tree table.
Yes - I was thinking about doing it that way last night.
Just to throw this into the public ring just to see if the collective
thinking on how this would be done is similar (or if there are any ideas
that can be injected into the mix)......
I thought a custom type to hold the data and a new "tree" type called
"forum" (similar to dmNavigation and categories). The top element (the
root) would represent the whole Forum with only one Forum per FarCry site
(with as many Discussions in that Forum as you liked). First descendant
levels from the root would be each "discussion". The the second level
descendants would be an item in the discussion (this would cause an actual
new custom discussion object to be created). All the discussion items
created in that discussion would basically just be categorised by that
node of the tree. This would also mean that admin tools could easily move
items between discussions and any number of more complex facilities (such
as cross-referencing) would be possible because of the generic object
model (gotta LUV that about FarCry).
So you would end up with the following type of tree:
\Forum
\My Discussion
\A Discussion Item
\Another Discussion Item
\A Different Discussion
"Unwrapping" all the above, I basically see "discussion" items just living
in a database and being "categorised" by the Forum/Discussion/Item they
belong to. This will then allow for maximum flexibility in adding other
categorisation mechanisms and linking with other FarCry objects (e.g. a
"discussion" on a FarCry content page - a la Microsoft MSDN, or even a
"dicussion" on a dmEvent, or - heaven forbid - a "discussion" on a
Discussion).
What I was also tossing around was if I would use the nested tree table to
hold the relationships for a fully threaded discussion or not. Maybe this
should be a configurable item when creating a discussion.
Many of the forum tools out there - while maintaining threads in general -
tend to just display everything in the discussion in a "flat" model. So
maybe "threaded" is not really that important.
Having had a strong Lotus Notes background, I am very much in favour of a
fully threaded hiearchical discussion but also realise that web-based
discussions tend to be much more short-lived than the content in a Lotus
Notes discussion database.
Gary Menzel
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