On 3/8/07, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James M Snell wrote: > Dave wrote: >> [snip] >> I consider that a bug. The standard front-page theme should support >> pinned-to-main, which is a Global-Admin only way to pin a blog entry >> to the front-page of a Roller site. >> >> I think adding a "pinned" option for make good sense. >> > > As a general FYI, I'm taking a slightly different tact with pinned > entries "Pinned to main" entries in our updated internal blogs will > show up as popup notices on the front page separate from the other > entries. They will be used to inform users of planned outages, etc and > will be listed separately from the other entries. Among our user base > of several thousand bloggers, I haven't heard of any one clammering for > the ability to pin posts to the tops of their own blog pages. I agree that "pinned to main" is a bad description of that feature and we can probably do better, plus it should be built into the default frontpage theme. I also agree with James that this is not likely to be a feature that normal blogs would really benefit from as evidenced by the fact that AFAIK nobody has asked for it yet. I would probably defer to what other major blog software is doing for the final decision though, do MovableType and WordPress offer this?
Apparantly other blog engines do do this, but we'll (family) need to look around to figure out which ones. I know it's been Carrie's #1 requested feature for the last 3 years :)
>>> *2* Shareable posts. The ability for a user to post to more than one >>> blog at a time. Rather than copying them, I think what we'd do is have >>> the blog entry be authored for one blog, but then have the ability for >>> the author (or another author on that blog) to share them with other >>> blogs. I'm unsure whether the permissions should be: >>> >>> i) An author can share to any blog that they have write permissions to. >>> ii) An author can share to any blog that is set up as able to share to >>> in the blog's permissions (regardless of permissions). >>> iii) Both of the above; ie) configure the blogs you can share to AND >>> need perms. >> Sounds kind of complicated. You'd do that via many-to-many >> relationship between weblogs and entries? Can't we solve that problem >> with aggregation instead? >> > > Sounds really complicated to me and not really all that useful. Planet > aggregation seems like a much better / more elegant approach. I agree, an aggregation is a nicer way of solving this problem in a whole variety of ways.
I'm probably not up to date on how to do the aggregation. Ive been meaning to ask if there are any docs for getting up and running with Roller's Planet. My understanding of this feature is that it's for when a user has multiple blogs and they wish to post to both blogs at the same time. Doing that via aggregation seems very painful. I could see how someone could have one blog with multiple categories (and then subcategories) and treat each category as its own blog visually. Then if we supported a blog entry being in more than one category it could be shared. So maybe this is "we should allow multiple categories for a blog entry"? Hen
