Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Forums or General Comments for comments in projects

3: Re: Forums or General Comments for comments in projects (response to 1)

Posted by Caroline Meeks on 01/23/07 01:41 AM

We could leap frog straight to comments like this.

http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/2006/12/29/preview-drag-and-drop-enhancements-and-the-new-treepanel/

4: Re: Forums or General Comments for comments in projects (response to 3)

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/23/07 10:17 AM

Amen to that when it comes down to (personal) comments on learning materials: https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=578568

For projects it wont work because comments in projects are used for:

1) Commenting on the status of the task (along with hour information)
2) Providing additional information about a task / project
3) Asking questions for clarification

This is why the idea of threaded comments from dave is great, but I have to ask myself, if I have threaded forums, why do I need threaded comments? Isn't this code duplication? I think what would be easiest is if you could say that forum messages can have any object_id as a parent and then rewrite thread-chunk.tcl which takes care of that.