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Hi, another GSoC coder here reporting for duty :P (John Pritchard). Anyway, first off I'd like to say hi to everyone on the boards and I'd also like to use this topic to discuss my project for the summer.

At the moment, I'm just getting to grips with PostNuke and the Categories system itself but any input would be greatly appreciated, the specification for the project is at:
http://communit...stem_SRS.pdf




edited by: Extapathy, Apr 24, 2008 - 07:12 PM

Hi and Welcome John.

The categories module? :D I have a small related essay on this, I am very tired at the moment, and it is only mostly done, but I will get it to you tomorrow.

Greetings,

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David Pahl
Zikula Support Team

Hi john,

Welcome! Not an easy task you picked. But a very interesting and challenging one! IMHO this is the one of the most crucial parts of a scaled down core framework. I'm sure there will be a lot of input coming your way . Who is your mentor by the way (see you have an 'Inhaltsverzeichnis' in you SRS)?

Ciao

Welcome

Categories can be really important to get a well structured site. The new category system where you use the same cats over the different modules is great. documentation on how to use it and how to set up a good system that is maintanable later on etc is important here. Since it is fairly new there is not that much already. But the level of knowledge is increasing
Subcategories can become important when you need to stucture more information.

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A challenge eh? Sounds good to me! ^_^
I believe my mentor is Robert Gasch (or so it says on the GSoC homepage) - how do I get in touch with him? BTW, how do you guys get in touch with each other aside from e-mail and the forum, do you have any IM that you use? (I'm sure I saw Skype mentioned somewhere).
Also, which mailing lists should I join?



edited by: Extapathy, Apr 25, 2008 - 02:25 PM

Yup, Skype it the most used way AFAIK. On of the SC members could point you to the right chats there.

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via Skype, contact me AmmoDump or David Pahl.. and I will point you.

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David Pahl
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One good improvement would be how to associate images to the categories. A way to upload the image as you create the category instead of FTPing the image and manually adding the file name to an attribute as is the current structure.

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cyber_wolf
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cyber_wolf

One good improvement would be how to associate images to the categories. A way to upload the image as you create the category instead of FTPing the image and manually adding the file name to an attribute as is the current structure.

This is possible already (half of it). You can associate any number of userdefined attributes (strings) to any category. This is done where you edit a single category item.

Add for instance an attribute "image" and set it to "myCategoryImage.gif" - then it is available in any module that uses the categories correctly. It is _probably_ available as .

The missing part is that there is no upload designed specifically for categories. But I personally think that would be a bad idea - use some central upload database (MediaAttach or Mediashare?).

Hi,

I'm your mentor and you can reach me at rgasch]at[gmail.com

Having said this, welcome to PostNuke and I hope that you find your project both interesting and rewarding. I'll be trying to guide you through the categories system to the best of my abilities. I originally wrote the categories module, but as of lately Mateo has been doing a lot of work on it. The two of us should be able to help you with any issues you have.

Greetings/Thanks
R

JørnWildt

This is possible already (half of it). You can associate any number of userdefined attributes (strings) to any category. This is done where you edit a single category item.

Add for instance an attribute "image" and set it to "myCategoryImage.gif" - then it is available in any module that uses the categories correctly. It is _probably_ available as .

The missing part is that there is no upload designed specifically for categories. But I personally think that would be a bad idea - use some central upload database (MediaAttach or Mediashare?).

Yes, but you still have to manually associate the image to the category. With so many other areas of PostNuke being automated and made more user friendly, this one piece is still in the "dark ages", being a 2 step process that should be a 1 step process. This is the one thing I hated about the old Topics module.

I'm not opposed to using MediaAttach, Mediashare, or some other centralized upload system, but maybe having a plugin or hook so that the Category module can properly utilized these systems.

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cyber_wolf
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