Neil Schneider wrote:
>..
> In some views, specifically when clicking on the caledar to bring up
> an event, a "related" panel appears on the left. If there was a 
> feature that connected related pages in a navigation panel, that might
> be useful to anonymous users coming to the site.


Ummm <sheepishly>, I'm not sure that the portlet_related thingy in the
left column was always there. I may have introduced it in recovering
from my adventure discovering what the delete button means on the portal
properties page

For the record, I accidentally deleted the left-slots object entirely.
And for some reason I couldn't perform an undo, so I re-created a new
left-slots and pasted into it the _standard_ things from typical plone
installs.

So it may be that original config did not have a "related" panel. If so,
that was probably by design (josh? greg?)

So.., we might want to keep an eye on the contents of the related panel
to see:

 1) if it is basically useful or not
 2) if it contains things we would rather not have there

Docs say:
 The related portlet shows a list of items that are related to the item
you're currently viewing, as determined by the keywords on that item. If
a related item is a link to another Web site, then it'll show up in a
separate list of external resources. Even if you have this item in the
list of portlets, it won't display unless there are some related items

I haven't looked at it carefully, yet, but keyword matches does seem to
trigger a related panel only for events. And the related events, at
first glance, always look like past events.

MyOp: It seems not very useful to show old events (in this way). Maybe
just because event writers haven't been consistent about checking-off
the keywords, and so the content is somewhat _random_.

==> Q: Should portlet_related be removed until/unless it's content can
be better defined and controlled (eg by policy)?

Regards,
..jim

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