Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: RFC: Using XoWiki as a course catalog

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3: Re: RFC: Using XoWiki as a course catalog (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 08/21/07 10:26 AM
Malte, the attributes are not important. Those I can easily display with pagetemplate. form is not important as well since the course data is coming from an external system. Thus in xowiki I only display the data.

Important are the relationships:

An organisational unit has several professors.
A professor offers several courses.
A course can occupy several rooms.

Using xowiki if I display the course I want to autogenerate links to the corresponding organisational unit, professors and rooms.

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5: Re: RFC: Using XoWiki as a course catalog (response to 3)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 08/22/07 10:14 AM
If you are sure you will not need the information about professors and courses somewhere in .LRN itself, then just go with FormPages and create one Form for each "object type".

So you would create courses, professors and organizational units as xowiki::Forms and for each course have an xowiki::FormPage. These pages you could then link up using xowiki relationships.

I don't think categories makes any sense here.