Posted by mlncn on January 4, 2008 at 9:53pm
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| Project: | Social Forum Call for Action |
| Version: | 5.x-.1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | mlncn |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
WSF Action has content types -- actions, images, videos, wikis, and more -- that are required to be within the context of an action space. That is, we do not have disassociated actions, images, videos, or wikis, but content that relates to an action or collection of closely related actions. These "action spaces" are implemented with Organic Groups.
There are two options for encouraging people to add content when they are /outside/ the scope of an Organic Group (action space).
- The usual behavior when a person goes to node/add/content-type for a content type that is restricted to organic groups: they are allowed to create the content if they belong to at least one group, and required to select an "audience" for that content by choosing a group. If they do not belong to any group (action space), they are asked to create a new group or join an existing one. In our case this would have to be changed to a link to create an action, which creates an action and group at the same time, as we chose to tie Actions and Action Spaces closesly together.
- Direct people to a page that lays out these options, customized for each user and content type. This has a distinct advantage of being able to treat three types of users differently:
- Anonymous (not logged in) users can be encouraged to register or log in. They can then be redirected back to this same page, but now as logged in user.
- For logged in users who do not belong to any groups (action spaces), they can be offered the opportunity to create an action and group (action space) OR to find and join an action space. (In both cases, they'll have to click on what content type they want to create from there, though.)
- For logged in users who do belong to at least one group (action space), they can could select a link to create their content type directly for any one of their groups (action spaces) OR they can do the same as the above.
(1) is faster to implement, but not trivial; (2) is much better, especially because people may click to create content that they do not want in any of their existing groups... and by the time they find out their choices it's too late.
Comments
#1
so if i understand it is a link from any country page to a didactic page where a series of link give users that want to create contents opportunity to register or join an action space or create an action/ action space to do so
i-e redundancy with the right side menu but presented differently , which may work for some user more than the current interface
there could be also an action space "general testimonies" ( managed by support team) where unallocated people (i-e belonging to no group just registered on the site - could join and create unallocated contents
#2
It is not redundant with the right side menu because the option to create videos, messages, news, wikis etc only exist when you are in an action space that you are a part of (that is, joined or subscribed to).
The point of this page is to deal with the situation when someone says "I want to post some content" (other than an action, which will create an action space with it) but are not yet in a context that allows them to post content. (That context being an action space in our terms, and an organic group in Drupal/technical terms.)
#3
The Drupal 5 branch of this project is no longer being maintained.