Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-31 Thread Emiliano
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Patrick Hayes wrote: > What do you think? Four/five fairly simplistic global functions, lookup > tables giving code meanings, and adding a little chunk of code to existing > functions to let them report what goes wrong. It certainly seems thorough. But I'm not sure on what

Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-31 Thread Patrick Hayes
> Currently, the function will tell yo uthat it failed, although the > admin site makes very little use of that for reporting. The reason > for the failure is not available in 1.2.X, and changing the return > code of these functions (moving from boolean to x-state) is going > to break existing Mid

Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-31 Thread Emile Heyns
Carilda Thomas schreef: > Ideally, when a user logged in, they would not be able to see any items > (pages, styles, elements, topics, articles) except those for which they had > at least read permission, and there would be a line somewhere on the > displayed page which said something like "Curren

Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-31 Thread Carilda Thomas
Emiliano wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joost Soeterbroek wrote: > > > You were right. It was an ownership problem. Which leads me to another > > question. Why does a user not get a clearer error message when he/she > > does something he/she has no right to? > > Currently, the function will tell y

Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-30 Thread Emiliano
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joost Soeterbroek wrote: > You were right. It was an ownership problem. Which leads me to another > question. Why does a user not get a clearer error message when he/she > does something he/she has no right to? Currently, the function will tell yo uthat it failed, although t

Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-30 Thread Joost Soeterbroek
Emiliano wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joost Soeterbroek wrote: > > > In topic admin interface when creating or modifying topic, I find a > > 'code' field. What is it for? > > Whatever you like. > > > In same topic admin interface when creating or modifying Toplevel > > topic, I find a scor

Re: [midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-30 Thread Emiliano
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joost Soeterbroek wrote: > In topic admin interface when creating or modifying topic, I find a > 'code' field. What is it for? Whatever you like. > In same topic admin interface when creating or modifying Toplevel > topic, I find a score field. What is this for? It could

[midgard] Code field in topic admin

2000-01-30 Thread Joost Soeterbroek
Hi all, In topic admin interface when creating or modifying topic, I find a 'code' field. What is it for? In same topic admin interface when creating or modifying Toplevel topic, I find a score field. What is this for? It could no be for sorting, as is the case with the subtopics, since there