Quote between content types. [#63528]

One feature that would add "a whole dimension" to this nice module is the ability to choose where to quote "into".

Example: I would like to be able to quote a blog post into a new forum post, or one of those into a new book page, by choosing from a drop-down list of content types or something similar. (In addition to the optioin of quoting as a reply to the original, of course).

(A more advanced version would be one that would let us choose to quote something into a REPLY onto a different post. Then one must be presented with options to choose between post titles, which obviously would be a navigational challenge).

Comments

Comment #1

Leeteq commented 15 May 2006 at 19:49

Here is another potential use for this:
http://drupal.org/node/21347

Comment #2

Zen commented 22 May 2006 at 06:53

Version:

4.6.x-1.x-dev

» master

Can you sketch out the UI for this? I can't see it being non-clunky.

-K

Comment #3

Leeteq commented 7 June 2006 at 23:25

I am not a programmer, but perhaps AJAX (Drupal 4.7) can be used to provide a menu that pops up when hovering or clicking on the quote link? If that is technically possible, then that menu (drop-down list) would simply just ask where (how) to quote it: 1. As a reply to the actual post, 2. As new blog post, 3. New forum post, 4. New book page.

Does this provide an example to your question about the UI?
If not AJAX can be used, or other techniques to make a drop-down available on the same page, then I would be fine with getting to a new page that simply displayed that drop-down as a standard drop-down list. But that is possibly what you mean by clunky?
Sometimes it is better to have the option in a half-elegant way, than simply not being able to do that piece of work.

I see this quote mechanism as one of the functions that triggers more activity. The easier it is to quote (read: "use") information in(to) several places, the more activity we may have.

Comment #4

Leeteq commented 9 June 2006 at 18:38

Yet another example: related to the issues tracker. Useful to be able to quote a forum post into a new feature request, for example. (with the URL to the forum thread). Many similar uses for this in other modules.

Comment #5

doitDave commented 25 December 2011 at 14:25

I would suggest implementing this into an extension/sub module like "quote cross-post" or similar.

I see several ways to initiate such a cross post quote,

a) having an additional link "cross-quote to..." which either opens some Ajax popup asking for the target node ID/path/etc or opens an intermediate form demanding for this data
b) having an additional comment form button as "cross-quote from" which does the same as above but source-based.

I will look after this again as soon as some more basic changes as #1385762: Refactor hook_form_alter() are adapted.