[Zope-PTK] feature request: news categories

[Jochen Haeberle]

At 20:12 Uhr -0500 15.02.2000, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>  > How about a PTK version of KM|net news? This is a great product from
>  > you and would defenitely be an interesting addition to the PTK.
>
>From some conversations with Butch a couple weeks back, I wouldn't be
>surprised to see KM|Net News and Squishdot merge. Though today they are very
>different in implementation and feel, I think it's possible that a single
>Product could serve both needs well.

Ah? This really sounds a bit strange to me... although both are
somehow based on news and articles, I see their target really
different. Squishdot stresses on a community while KMNN is more of an
online newspaper...

>  > Remeber you said you will defenitely provide an upgrade path to PTK -
>  > that's probably the best way...
>
>There will be an upgrade path for sure. We've got more than 150 articles in
>our KMNN now, and I'm not going to manually re-enter them :)

:) I see... I am very interested to see what that will look like!

>  > Imagine every user being able to submit articles for every news
>  > category and all the whistle and bells of KM|net news.... Top stories
>  > for the homePage, rankings, favorites... and later the customizing
>  > features for every user: create your own portal newspage, select the
>  > categories you'r most interested in and those Top-Stories will be
>  > your homepage... ahh, great!!!!
>
>There are indeed some great possibilities! Imagine those features you like
>about KMNN and add the ability to have discussions attached to the articles,
>if you wish... That's kind of what I'm seeing for the future (plus all of
>the great customization and review stuff that PTK will enable).

I had no problem at all adding ZDiscussions to my articles - I guess
thanks to your help with the DTML :) I even have an easy interface
for the reviewer to add one - I attached that to the article
review-page. It either shows a link "add a discussion to this
article" or if one exists "review discussion entries". As the KMNN
articles are object containers I just droped the discussion in there
- it was very easy to handle.
I had problems adding polls this way. For whatever reason the polls
always were created in the root-folder, outside of the Article store.

I too am very excited about the customization features awaiting us 
with PTK! Nevertheless, for the sites I am builing I am more in need 
for KMNN than for Squishdot :-)

>Kevin

Jochen