Posted by geerlingguy on October 22, 2009 at 7:44pm
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| Project: | Managing News |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0-beta6 |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
Is there any way that I can kind of 'be in multiple channels' at the same time, so I can sort a bunch of items without continually having to switch my 'active channel'? I would like to have a menu of channels pop up beside the star, with all my created channels...
Comments
#1
I asked this today too - I think the answer is no. If I understand properly, you need to have a channel active in order to assign an item to it.
It seems like it would be easier to click on the star next to a news piece and have a list of your channels there to put it in. ......at least I think that's how I'd use it....= )
#2
The answer is no: right now, you can't use channels very well for sorting.
We built channels with having collecting into a single channel in mind. The user story was having very few channels, research news for a specific channel and collect into it.
This is definitely a good feature request.
#3
Ah, very good! In that case, the way it's currently set up is excellent (and I was thinking of assigning certain users certain categories. But it'd be nice for smaller sites with multiple categories if that popout menu could incorporate all the categories if need be.
The setup is working great, btw.
#4
think it would be worth grouping all of the feature requests into one thread so that the dev(s) can comment on what's worth doing, what's crazy, what's reasonable, etc..and open to clean group feedback? just a thought...
#5
#4: http://drupal.org/project/issues/managingnews?text=&status=Open&prioriti...
; )
#6
After a couple of more in-depth conversations with people using and building on Managing News, the desired improvements are starting to shape up more concretely. Let me summarize.
Status quo/problems:
Right now a user can create one or more channels and then add news items to an "active channel". A channel can be set active by selecting it from a widget on the bottom of the screen and confirming the selection. New channels can be created on the same screen by supplying a title and confirming it.
This workflow is too cumbersome for quickly sorting feed items into various channels while skimming them. Further it makes adding new channels on the fly harder than it should be.
Goals:
Proposal:
In order to achieve the goals above we should shift our paradigm from adding items to a channel to free tagging items and then creating channels from tags (not directly from items). A user would go through news items and free tag them (just like taxonomy module's free tagging option); on the channels section, the user would later create channels for one or more specific tag(s).
Tasks (high level):
Codebase: http://github.com/developmentseed/mn_channels
#7
Sounds reasonable to me... the more taxonomy integration and freedom to tag in various ways and group those tags in various ways, the better, imo.
#8
Similarly, it would be convenient to be able to add all items from a feed to a channel by default (which becomes much easier with the tagging direction, but a nice UI would also be helpful)
Use case: using MN to aggregate data from many different google news search queries; but those queries are for very specific items of interest; yet fit inside broad business-category buckets which would ideally be able to be mapped and tracked as a whole (e.g. all news about the following 10 search queries should always be labeled "Partners")
#9
BIG +1 I AGREE
#10
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#11
This is implemented and will be rolled out with beta 7 next week. Sneak preview here - http://managingnews.com/previews/mnbeta7preview.tar.gz
#12
Nice! I'll be giving it a test on CNL once the thing is finished.
#13
Subscribing....
#14
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.