Forum OpenACS Development: Someone is working on forums package?

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1: Someone is working on forums package?
Posted by David Arroyo Menéndez on 01/08/07 01:46 PM

Hello,

In UNED we're thinking to improve some features related to the forums package. We're seeing Google Groups, PhpBB and WebCT to take ideas. Some features that we want:

  • Advanced Searches: Search by subject, by author, by date, ...
  • Delete a forum from a class
  • Quote messages
  • Allow rate posts
  • Export thread or forum in a plain text
  • Allow see the author portrait in a post
  • ...

I would like know if someone is working on this package and how can we work on a coordinate mode with them.

Regards.

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2: Re: Someone is working on forums package? (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 01/08/07 02:19 PM
SolutionGrove has done work on forums to add user portraits. I know it could be easily integrated with the ratings package.

For searching by subject or author, is it really necessary to have advanced search? Full text indexing should work for most cases if you search for the authors name, for example, and subject is generally weighted higher than the content to pull that up first.

I believe UNED is using Oracle, I am not sure which version, but the intermedia driver package along with Search package from OpenACS 5.3 should provide most of the features. One thing we added in 5.3 version of search is weighting by date, so never items will be weighted higher.

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5: Re: Res: Re: Someone is working on forums package? (response to 2)
Posted by David Arroyo Menéndez on 01/09/07 10:30 AM
SolutionGrove has done work on forums to add user portraits.

Ok!

I know it could be easily integrated with the ratings >package.

Perfect 😊

For searching by subject or author, is it really necessary to
have advanced search? Full text indexing should work for most
cases if you search for the authors name, for example, and
subject is generally weighted higher than the content to pull
that up first.

Yes, full text indexing should work for most cases. I think that this a don't be a priority feature, but if google groups support this feature openacs can do it, too ;).

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3: Re: Someone is working on forums package? (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/08/07 03:47 PM
Could you collaborate along with the ideas at the XoWIKI so others can see this in a structured way?

There exists already a project for the forums facelift at https://openacs.org/xowiki/Forums.

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4: Re: Res: Re: Someone is working on forums package? (response to 3)
Posted by David Arroyo Menéndez on 01/09/07 09:40 AM
Sure!