Though at first trial this seems nice, I am skeptical in the long run. What's the difference between this and running a search for the word "track"? As far as I can tell, the only difference is the link in the nav. What if people use the word "track" for other meanings, or don't intend that page to be published as a music track. For example, if I posted a patch and described it as a "multi-track mixer", it would show up under the Tracks section even though its not a track at all. I think a page that is writable/publishable by all members would be a better solution, but maybe this "Topic" feature could be honed.
Also, following the plone URL guidelines, I changed the file name from "Tracks" to "tracks". I can't seem to find the link, but somewhere in the docs for Zope/CMF/Plone it said that all "Names"/urls should not use upper case or dashes. I agree with this, since it makes the urls memorable, and makes things clean.
In any case, I am glad to see stuff progressing. The community and news sections needs to be built out.
.hc
On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 11:47 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
I added a so called "Topic" to the community area on pd.org. A Topic collects content items according to self-defined rules. The new Topic collects tracks. The current rule set is:
- Content type must be "File"
- Content description must include the word "track".
This seems to work just fine. I added a short experiment "track" to my home folder, that follows above rules, and as soon as it was "published" by me it appeard in the "Tracks" topic.
You can do this, too, and become famous ;)
The Track Topic is available at:
http://testpd.iem.at/community/Tracks/
I think, this might be a good way to collect content. It might be cool to have a content types like "Track" or "Patch" but I don't know yet how this is done.
But we should fill this up with Topics for patches, images and so on.
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
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