Forum OpenACS Q&A: Lars-Blogger enhancement

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Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on
Hi all,

This weekend I was envolved with adding capabilities for the lars-blogger package that I think it is very usefull:

- integrate ratings so a member could evaluate a blog item, access the average rating for each item and access other members ratings. I was very surprised when I saw ratings package from jeff davis in cvs. I never used this package but I found it is very usefull and contains almost all features I thought to integrate with blogger (unless UI). Thanks Jeff!

- add capability to a member forwards a blog item to other members by email like we can do in forums

- add capability to a member post a blog item with images (i think the way I did it is not very good but it seems to work. i use photo-album and htmlarea to do it - users can access a photo-album instance with htmlarea insert image buttom)

Anyone interested could log in at http://novo.lei9840.org.br (not a permanent url) with email mailto:testuser@lei9840.org.br and pass test. Go to "Noticias" link.

Comments are wellcome.

I wonder if we could enhance lars-blogger with new RSS feeds with enclosure like http://www.itconversations.com/rss.html. Also maybe we could develop UI for rating to enhance lars-blogger to offer facilities like itconversations program queue http://www.itconversations.com/help/help-queue.html. Anyone doing something in this directions (maybe AndrewG?)? I would love to help.

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Posted by Jade Rubick on
Orzenil:

These are great additions. Please do consider adding these to lars-blogger. But you might want to talk with Lars Pinds first. He is the package maintainer. He hasn't been very active with it recently, so you might ask him if he's still interested in maintaining it.

I believe ratings is on HEAD, so if you do these changes, make sure they're on HEAD as opposed to oacs-5-1.

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Posted by Andrew Grumet on
Yes!  I'm working on enclosures now.

The ratings look interesting.  Please, if you haven't already, consider adding a parameter (e.g. ExposeItemRatingsP with possible options 1 or 0) that can be used to show or hide this feature.  I wouldn't want to offer it, for example, on my personal weblog.

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Posted by Orzenil Silva Junior on
Jade:

Thank you for your considerations. I will try contact Lars Pinds to learn from him about these additions. Meanwhile I got some advices in his personnal blog at http://www.pinds.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=2885 where he talked about scoring users votes. It is a great lecture but i am advertised he thinks explicit votes ("rank this item from 0 to 5") is not very interesting :)

AndrewG:

Thank you for you comment. Please, any notice about enclosures feel free to contact me.