Al,
Thank you for the reply!
I'm hesitant to add another field that is specific to forums. As David has pointed out,
ownerContentId is intended to be used for security purposes and right now it contains the forum ID -
I don't want to change that.
How about a field named contentGroupId? Then other parts of the content manager can use it for
grouping content records.
I'll think about it more over the weekend.
-Adrian
Al Byers wrote:
Adrian,
There are so many things about this that I cannot think of and, hopefully,
David will be able to comment. The InstanceOfContentId field is used in a
mode where content is derived from a template. I don't think that there
would be any conflicts in its use, but I am guessing the right philosophy is
that if it is needed, you should add another field to the entity.
The ownerContentId is another field that could be used. I have used it for
that purpose before. It is suppose to be used to identify the content record
from which security permissions should be determined and, generally, that
would be the content that starts a thread. The only place that that would
not work is if in the middle of a thread, two or more parties wanted to send
private messages to each other. But if that were the case, it would probably
constitute a new thread.
I think I would lean towards adding a new field, then it would be the use of
ownerContentId and then instanceOfContentId. But, like I said, I am not
certain enough about any of those options to be definitive.
-Al
On 8/23/07, Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think I've mapped out the basic entity usage for forums. I wanted to see
if it's okay to use an
unused field to hold the forum thread ID. I know I can start with any
ContentAssoc record and walk
up the tree to find the ID of the uppermost message (the thread start) but
since forums (and
threads) can contain thousands of messages this approach is far too
inefficient.
Currently the Content.InstanceOfContentId field isn't used in forum
messages. It seems like an
appropriate place to store a thread ID, since the message can be thought
of as an instance of a thread.
What do you think?
-Adrian
