No comments in the chat archive?

Hi,

This would go in tandem with the feature request I submitted here :

Create a new permission : "access archived chatroom"
http://drupal.org/node/90309

If you make it possible for site admins to allow anonymous users to read archived chatrooms, then the next logical step would be to also make it possible for site admins to allow comments on the archives.

There's no reason for users to comment on the chatroom. Yet, for individual chats, that would be awesome.

I guess the issue here is that chatrooms are container nodes and have been permalinked accordingly but chats within a container chatroom are not being permalinked as nodes related to a chatroom. This makes for the permalinking of chatrooms and chat confusing.

CHATROOM : http://www.sitename.com/node/#

and then,

CHAT : http://www.sitename.com/chatrooms/archives/1

I have not run a PATHAUTO rebuild on the site yet, but, in theory, if I were to rebuild, this is what I would get :

CHATROOM : http://www.sitename.com/chatroom_name
CHAT : http://www.sitename.com/chatrooms/archives/1

There's no way for me to know semantically through the permalink, to which chatroom node the chat is related to.

I'm not a coder BUT, if I were to deal with the logistics of permalinking chats, I would append a chat ID after the chatroom node ID. Maybe something like

CHATROOM : http://www.sitename.com/node/#
CHAT : http://www.sitename.com/node/#/chat#

Again, i have not run a PATHAUTO rebuild, but if I did, in theory, I am pretty sure I would get

CHATROOM : http://www.sitename.com/chatroom_name
CHAT : http://www.sitename.com/chatroom_name/chat_name

By treating chats as nodes, then we would be able to append features to the archived chats like comments, trackbacks, nodevote, email this page, etc. etc. Does this make sense?

Liza Sabater, Publisher
www.culturekitchen.com