Merge with Node Type module?
scedwar - April 16, 2008 - 12:58
| Project: | Node Convert |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I've been successfully using the nodetype module http://drupal.org/project/nodetype to convert some basic nodes, mainly simple pages to custom cck types (not the other way).
It would be great if you could join forces with the author of that module to combine the functionality/user interface of this module with the existing nodetype module. This is all very useful functionality, and you've taken a different (and equally valid) approach to the UI. In my view this is all stuff that should be in core so it would be great to have two developers working on this!
Cheers, Stephen
#1
I'm not sure that it's a good idea to merge, cause nodetype simply changes the node type of a node. Whereas node_convert is able to transfer cck field values to and from different content types. You could say node_convert already has nodetype functionality. Furthemore I'm thinking of implementing bulk converting of nodes, but that's still in the future. Still the goals differ.
#2
In that case then nodetype merely has a subset of the functionality in nodeconvert, with a slightly different UI. Still suggests a merge would be wise whatever the new module is called.
btw - I can see endless use cases for this module with a full API and especially with actions integration.
In particular, taking an existing cck content type and converting it into a similar cck content type that is an og node.
#3
I'm not familiar with actions and organic groups atm, but I'll look into it.