Does anyone know how easy it would be to extend this module to support tri-state flags, i.e. on/off/maybe?

For example, if attached to event nodes it could be "Attending", "Not Attending" or "Maybe/Unknown". Or attached to story nodes it could be "Thumbs Up", "Thumbs Down" or "not voted".

Maybe this is something that should be done with the Voting API, but I like the simplicity of the Flag module.

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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This is very unlikely to happen. As when you have 3 states, why not 10? In fact, flag doesn't even support 2-state flagging, it only supports 1 state, flagged. There's no support for even something distinctly "unflagged", though it is assumed by being not flagged.

Anything that supports multiple states is better suited to another solution like taxonomy, votingapi, or signup.

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mooffie commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This is "wontfix", correct?

I too don't see how we can implement this feature without chanigng this module radically.

[...] but I like the simplicity of the Flag module

So let's keep it simple :-)