[geeklog-devtalk] Re: Geeklog 1.3.10 Modifications for consideration

[Tony Bibbs]

Yeah, we'd simply have to add a 'expire_date' on the stories table.  If 
empty it will never expire, if  it is expired, Geeklog would delete 
them.  It's a single database change and a small amount of extra 
code....quite doable.

--Tony

Jeff Hare wrote:


> Hi Guys,

>

>    I've been mulling this over for a few months to give me a chance to

> experiment with how the auto-expire/archive to topic might work.

>

> I implemented this to evaluate the concept on my site, but since it 

> changes

> the db tables slightly, I don't plan to keep it as implemented.   I 

> don't want

> to support customized tables on my site... :)

>

> Just for some background, here's why I agree that this behavior would

> be very helpful.

>

> Since I use GL to manage a club website, what I find very frequently is

> that we have major events or announcements that need to be "front and 

> center"

> on the home page, but should show up beginning on some date, and then go

> away once the event is over.

>

> Before, I managed this by assigning a start date, and then have to 

> remember

> to go uncheck the "show on home page" option to get it off the page 

> and back

> into the topic only.   It's hard for me to explain/train other story 

> moderators

> to do all this when most are not all that technical.

>

> As for deleting them, I can certainly see why this is useful, because 

> some

> events or announcements will never make sense again.   While it's easy to

> go in and delete them,  it's still work that needs to be done, and it 

> would be

> nice to be able to program this at posting time.

>

> If there's anything I can do to assist here, let me know.

>

> BTW, GL is fantastic.  I'm quite pleased with the GL2 coding and 

> architecture

> I've seen so far.   Nice job.

>

> -Jeff Hare

> Sr. Member Consulting Staff

> Cadence Design, Inc.

>

>

> At 10:43 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote:

>

>> I think it would be great to see this functionality incorporated into 

>> the

>> core, Blaine.  I have a couple of thoughts after reading your e-mail.

>>

>> 1) It would be really nice to activate and deactivate this functionality

>> through a config.php flag.  There are always users on the forums who 

>> don't

>> want their story editors to become bloated with options they never use.

>> Providing a flag would be an easy way to remedy this without forcing 

>> users

>> to hack template files.

>>

>> 2) Is an auto-delete option really a good idea?  I can see people

>> accidentally deleting content with no good way of getting it back.  This

>> seems dangerous.  It's generally good practice in CMSes to never delete

>> content, anyway.  I think it might be better to force the site admin to

>> create an archive topic that is hidden to most users and then archive

>> everything they would normally want to delete into that topic.

>>

>> 3) There have been requests for two types of archiving.  First, people

>> have said they would like to archive content off of the frontpage.  

>> Also,

>> some users have wanted to archive content from one topic to another 

>> (like

>> from a What's New topic to a more specific topic).  Does your 

>> modification

>> do both of these?  If not, it would be nice to add that for 1.3.10.

>>

>> - Turias

>>

>>

>> > I would like the following modifications considered to be included 

>> in the

>> > nex release and am posting to get any feedback.

>> >

>> > Modification 1:

>> >   Extend the Story Editor to also be able to auto-expire article 

>> content

>> >   Stories can be optionally moved to a "Archive" topic or deleted

>> >   Site configureable "archive" topic

>> >   Able to setup a Archive themed template for stories as well

>> >

>> >   See attached image of the modified story editor

>> >

>> > Modification 2:

>> >    Extend the Block Editor to be able to specify Start and End 

>> Dates for

>> > blocks to show

>> >

>> >

>> > Blaine

>>

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