Posted by webchick on October 14, 2012 at 8:16pm
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| Project: | Drupal Commons |
| Version: | 7.x-3.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
This looks a bit odd:
Especially important is the difference between "Page" and "Post" cos I'm not sure I could articulate that.
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Comments
#1
I'll start on these descriptions
#2
Latest beta looks like the attached screenshot. Anything specific that should be included here? Otherwise I'm just taking a best guess.
#3
I'm finding out. I'm pretty sure we haven't written anything for this page specifically.
I'd like to prevent Answer being there in isolation; it's only relevant as part of a question, but I suppose that's a separate issue.
#4
In case it might help, here are the relevant descriptions from the Drupal 6 version...
#5
I would like to help with this. Should I use post #4 as the descriptions?
#6
Here are some content descriptions for the new content types. I based them on the existing D7 content type descriptions, and actually took the existing wording for pages and posts from their analogs in a plain distro.
Event - Use events for information about planned activities or meetings.
Group - Use groups for collections of user accounts related by a shared interest or function.
Page - Use pages for your static content, such as an 'About us' page.
Post - Use posts for time-sensitive content like news, press releases or blog posts.
Wiki - Use wikis for collaboratively edited and curated content like technical articles or processes.
#7
I think we may need to explain Groups better. It's a container for content and members. Maybe something like:
Use <em>groups</em> to create a container for content and members of a shared interest or function.The other ones sound fine to me.
#8
In addition to the content types craig.norris listed in #6, there are also Polls and Answers available by default. Polls already have a description, but it will likely need to be changed to better match the other descriptions proposed in #6.
Two more content types are available within optional features, Documents and Notices. Neither of them currently include a description on the node/add page.
#9
Here are descriptions for the other content types:
Answer - Use answers for responses to Question content, which can be rated by user vote.
Document - Use documents for uploaded files or attachments to share with other users.
Notice - Use notices for administrative messages to display for your website users, such as system maintenance.
Poll - Use polls to obtain multiple-choice user responses to your comments or inquiries.
Question - Use questions to collect Answer content responses to your comments or inquiries.
And how about this for the Group content type?
Group - Use groups to contain users and content related by a shared interest or function.
#10
How about removing the string "Use [x] for..." from the beginning of all those bullets?
Document - uploaded files or attachments to share with other users.
Notice - administrative messages to display for your website users, such as system maintenance.
Poll - obtain multiple-choice user responses to your comments or inquiries.
Question - collect Answer content responses to your comments or inquiries.
Answers shouldn't be on the list if possible (see #3).
#11
I have copied and edited statements from above comments...
Post - Post time-sensitive content like news, press releases or blog posts.
Events - Post information about planned activities or meetings.
Document - Upload and display files or attachments to share with others.
Notice - Display an administrative alert for your website users, such as system maintenance.
Poll - Create a poll for users to cast their votes.
Question - Post a question to receive answers from other users.
Wiki - Collaborate on a document, allowing users to add, delete, or revise content. Provides document version controls.
Group - Create a group to join users with a shared interest or function.
#12
Having the "use the" phrase does two things... one, it provides a parallelism to content type descriptions in stock Drupal, and secondly, it makes the sentence more grammatically correct, in that you're using the content type to do something, rather than just doing something in a vacuum. Essentially, the description is for the content type and not how you use it.
#13
#14
I made some tweaks and committed. Thanks, everyone!
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_groups.git/commitdiff/81cd4cc?hp=7...
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_wikis.git/commit/a529ca2
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_q_a.git/commit/b6cfe2e
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_notices.git/commit/06cad39
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_posts.git/commit/00da7d8
#15
Page still doesn't have a description which makes this page look odd.
#16
Good catch - This is now fixed. Thanks!
http://drupalcode.org/project/commons_pages.git/commit/db29f0d
#17
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.