Blog.module as container system [#19394]

What I did now is make this a true "blog anything" system. Whyle the previous (above attached) patch changes the system drastically, it still only allows you to add items to your blog where you are the author!

What I did now, is change the behaviour, so that you can blog anything you can see. If you read something, and its not yet in your blog, you can hit a "blog this" link, et voila, its in your blog.

However, this might sound cool, but it comes dangerously close to a bookmark system. So i would like to know if this change is feaible according to you. If so, I will submit the changes, if not, I will keep them private.

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Comment #5

Junyor CreditAttribution: Junyor commented 26 March 2005 at 16:50

Generally speaking, I like it. It was easy and fairly intuitive to add an image node to my blog.

Comments:

1) In the update script, isn't the UPDATE query backwards, i.e. shouldn't all blog nodes be turning into story nodes and not the other way around?
2) Should you be able to put a node in two (or more) blogs? Right now, if a user has a node in his/her blog and another user goes into admin > content, the "Add to blog" check box is already checked. I'd like to have the ability for two users to put the same node in their blog if users will be able to put nodes they didn't author into their blog. Admittedly, that may cause more trouble than it's worth.

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Comment #6

(not verified) CreditAttribution: commented 27 March 2005 at 07:43

your #2 is covered in my latest comment. #1 is indeed a bug. I will solve that asap.

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Comment #7

Junyor CreditAttribution: Junyor commented 27 March 2005 at 07:48

Well, I guess it's a +1 from me on the functionality.

However, if that functionality doesn't go in, the current "Blog this" UI needs to be changed, as it's a bit confusing. You shouldn't see the check box if you didn't author the node.

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Comment #8

Bèr Kessels CreditAttribution: Bèr Kessels commented 8 June 2005 at 13:52

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blog_as_container.module	17.53 KB

This is a new patch, with some updates and brought back in sync with HEAD

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Comment #9

Bèr Kessels CreditAttribution: Bèr Kessels commented 8 June 2005 at 13:53

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And here is "how it all looks"

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Comment #10

Junyor CreditAttribution: Junyor commented 8 June 2005 at 14:19

We're going to get into interesting grammatical situations with the byline. Maybe just do something like this: "appears in the follow users' blogs: User A, User B, and another user." What is the "other user" for, BTW?

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Comment #11

Bèr Kessels CreditAttribution: Bèr Kessels commented 8 June 2005 at 15:34

"ther users" are there when a lot of users have it in their blogs. MAybe, in some future, that would be a link to a list of users that have that node marked as "in their blog".

Please give grammatical (and localisable!!) suggestions for the following three situations:
* only one user has it marked as "in his blog"
* two to X (hardcoded as four ATM) have it marked as "in their blog"
* four or more users have it have it marked as "in their blog"

Ber

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Comment #12

Bèr Kessels CreditAttribution: Bèr Kessels commented 8 June 2005 at 15:34

"ther users" are there when a lot of users have it in their blogs. MAybe, in some future, that would be a link to a list of users that have that node marked as "in their blog".

Please give grammatical (and localisable!!) suggestions for the following three situations:
* only one user has it marked as "in his blog"
* two to X (hardcoded as four ATM) have it marked as "in their blog"
* four or more users have it have it marked as "in their blog"

Ber

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Comment #13

Junyor CreditAttribution: Junyor commented 8 June 2005 at 15:49

I haven't done any localization work, so I can't provide any help there. For English, the following should work:

> * only one user has it marked as "in his blog"

"Blog: User A"

or

"Appears in the following user's blog: User A"

> * two to X (hardcoded as four ATM) have it marked as "in their blog"

"Blogs: User A and User B"
"Blogs: User A, User B, and User C"

or

"Appears in the following users' blogs: User A and User B"
"Appears in the following users' blogs: User A, User B, and User C"

> * four or more users have it have it marked as "in their blog"

I'm not really sure about this one. Should blogs have weights? Then, the lightest could be at the beginning of a list that trails off to ellipses. We could potentially used a collapsed element, as well.

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Comment #14

Bèr Kessels CreditAttribution: Bèr Kessels commented 8 June 2005 at 18:22

the last, -lots of users- is a bit of a prombem. ATM it is not at all weighted, but I have plans for sorting it by user actvity, meaning last active user floats to the top.

Note that in normal sitaions this lots-of-users will rearely occur, for only users who can edit a node can set it as "in their blog". Normally spoken, one can only edit his/her own nodes.

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Comment #15

Bèr Kessels CreditAttribution: Bèr Kessels commented 8 June 2005 at 18:22

the last, -lots of users- is a bit of a prombem. ATM it is not at all weighted, but I have plans for sorting it by user actvity, meaning last active user floats to the top.

Note that in normal situions this lots-of-users will rearely occur, for only users who can edit a node can set it as "in their blog". Normally spoken, one can only edit his/her own nodes.