wishlist - News and Groups

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:14 am

i'm not sure if i'm off topic, just going with the latest version : feel free to move this post.

Certainly News is at the core of why i love nuke, but in no way would i imply it's a great module. The concept rocks, the implementation leaves much to my wishlist.

Today's Problem ... some news stories and/or topic categories need only be read by some groups

Solution? I haven't a clue. Would it be terribly complex to mod?

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Not a bad idea. We have wishlist for News enhancements Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!. You should add that to the list.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 1:07 pm

Just off the top and realizing that there might be other approaches:

You would need something in nsngroups to associate topics and categories with groups. Nsngroups doesn't have much in the way of file maintenance capabilities now so you'd more or less have to build this from scratch.

From a news retrieval point of view this shouldn't be too complicated. It would just have to check the groups_topics table to see if the topic was assigned to any group ... I guess you could set it up so that if no group was found in groups_topics for a given topic it could be assumed to be open.

However from a submit news and even a new story (administrator) perspective it could get a bit hairy. You'd have to check the drop down boxes for topics and categories to make sure that only topics that the author had access to showed up on the drop down. You'd have to decide if being a news admin trumped not belonging to a group that's associated with a topic ... in other words does a news admin have access to all groups? You definitely wouldn't want people to be able to submit news for topics or categories they wouldn't have access to later.

In short this would affect two modules and probably require at least one new table.

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:19 am

i posted on the wish list, thanks for the link.

... submit news to topics or categories they wouldn't have access to later

fersure... a hairy challenge.. do you check the topic for admins or the admins for topics?? Wink