2008-07-01_11:57:57-0400 rpeterso: > I've got a news and events system on campus that basically does what a > comment-less blog does. It has one feature I'm not sure how to > replicate w/ roller though. Stories are 'weighted' and may have a > publication date. So a story about an upcoming event would include the > event's date, and a weight which (ostensibly - people try to game this > all the time) is supposed to serve to indicate how 'important' the event > is. > > These factors are combined to generate a probability that the item will > be highlighted on our website's main page. The more important the > event, and the closer today's date to the date range of the event, the > more likely it will show up. > > Would there currently be any way to configure roller to do something > similar? Being able to add some meta-data, and a few handy velocity > macros later, I think this would be pretty easy. I'm not seeing quite > how to do this today though. Any ideas?
p.s. - limiting the ability to edit specific metadata, like the 'weight' attribute I refer to above, to specific users rather than the authors, would be a plus. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso - I wish my computer would do what I want it to do - not what I tell it to do.
