created on Oct. 13, 2012, 11:21 a.m. by Hevok & updated on Oct. 13, 2012, 11:21 a.m. by Hevok
The Blog and Wiki, Todo as well as associated News and Tutorials and DEPs, Documentation app and several others follow the same pattern: Each one contains an data entry which has a title, a text and tags associated. tags themselves can be data entries or linked to corresponding data entries. Further, there is meta data associated with each entry such as date of creation (created), update (updated). Moreover, images (multiple) may be associated to an entry of which the first one will be the main one. A thumbnail view of images must be accessible.
Another field might declare whether it is drafted or not, but this is not necessary. Each entry content (text) needs to be rendered in html and have automatically assigned hyperlinks and should allow to use multiple markup languages.
It is therefore proposed to have a single data controlling app which eliminates the redundancy between all this different apps. Either tags or another table maybe it can be called type or category declares what type of entry it is. The simplest solution is that tags declare also the type of data entry, e.g. whether it is a news or tutorial. An immediate implementation of this concept was done by using the blog as the data-driving app. The tutorial should actually be part of the docs.
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