On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Paul Newby wrote:
> Can you elaborate a bit on the 2.0 extendable records and how
> this might work?
You will be able to add new named fields to existing records. One of
these could be used to introduce symbolic links. PHP level coding
could handle automatic retrieval of these.
> > But these fields are not fixed in time. I think it would present
> > somewhat of a management problem to oblige the user to keep track
> > of the target and keep updating the link fields.
>
> Well, come to think of it, probably the only field you are really likely
> to want to set manually to alter sorting in a separate context is the
> score.
That makes sense. This is something that could be done by either
approach presented earlier.
> So if you're assuming that the fields of the target article are
> automatically cloned onto the placeholder fields when the target
> changes, I suppose you could just leave the score of the linking
> article to be set manually.
OK. How about record deletion? Disallow when links exist (that the
target owner may not control), automatic removal of the links, or allow
broken links?
Bye,
Emile
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