Adrian, It is all starting to come back to me now. After all, it was two months ago that I was working on the forum stuff :0)
I upgraded the forum example, so I would not ignore it. And I would not ignore the blog stuff as there is very little difference. That is one of the things to be done is define what a forum does and how it is different from a blog. Of course the one big difference is that in a blog only one or a few people have permission to add "articles" while any logged in user can usually start a thread in a forum. The biggest question is whether or not the comments are ordered in date order or by thread. Blogs tend to allow only date ordering, but Slashdot orders responses by thread. A general forum mini app would probably allow the user to choose which ordering. One thing that I did a fair amount of work on was allowing the posting of mixed content (ie. images and text). That is not something you may want to have in a forum, but if it is used for a non-standard purpose, you might. I will start to diverge now, as I see forums as possible collaboration tools - in which case do you let users make personal notes to themselves about certain entries? You may want to think about allow categorization of an entry or response (eg. asking for help, lodging a complaint, etc.) One area in which I would like to help is to add Lucene text search to the blog. -Al On 8/8/07, Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phani, > > Thank you very much for the info! I'll work from the Content component > version then. > > I finally figured out how the entities are used too. I hope to have an > improved forum feature > submitted to Jira soon. > > -Adrian > > G.Venkata Phanindra wrote: > > Hi, > > Of my knowledge the first one in the ecommerce component was an old one > and > > there are quite a few issues to be fixed in it . > > The component in the content part is the most latest one and it will > work > > fine. > > As far as the list of entities i remember are . > > > > Content,ContentAssoc,Party,ElectronicText. > > > > I worked on it and i was also able to give a component for one of our > > ecommerce website > > > > Regards > > Phani > > > > > > On 8/8/07, Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Okay, now I see there are two copies of Forums - one in the content > >>component and one in the > >>eCommerce component. Does anyone know why there are two copies and which > >>one is the most current? > >> > >>-Adrian > >> > >>Adrian Crum wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hey David - if the forum feature was extracted in the project, where > >>>would it go? > >>> > >>>-Adrian > >>> > >>>David E Jones wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>The best and most brief source of information on this is probably the > >>>>Content demo data, most of which is in the applications/ecommerce/data > >>>>directory. > >>>> > >>>>You can also review key services you see used in different places and > >>>>see which entities they use and how. > >>>> > >>>>-David > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Adrian Crum wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>I'm trying to extract the forum feature from the eCommerce component > >>>>>so that I can use it as a component in our back-office collaboration > >>>>>suite. Everything is moving along well so far. > >>>>> > >>>>>I would like to make some enhancements to it, but the entity schema > >>>>>for content management is a bit overwhelming. I tried getting more > >>>>>information through Google search, but with no success. > >>>>> > >>>>>Does anyone know where the content management entities are described > >>>>>and how they are used? If such a resource isn't available, could > >>>>>someone give me some tidbits of insight? Anything would help. > >>>>> > >>>>>Thanks in advance! > >>>>> > >>>>>-Adrian > >>>>> > >>>> > > > > > > >
