Dave wrote:
1) a new page in the Admin UI (or somewhere else) for viewing the
paging through the most recent blogs across the whole site and then
marking the ones you will want displayed or on the front page.
2) a new manager or new methods in the existing Manager interface for
fetching entries that are marked for display on the main page.
3) some way to mark entries for display on the main page of the blog.
I guess you could use the exiting "pinned" field as the flag.
That flag doesn't have enough semantics to pin the entry in a specific
place in main, or another template. I was thinking of adding a small
input field next to the "Pinned to main" checkbox where users can type a
page area ID, e.g. "top story" and
4) a new "Page Model" class (for use in templates) that will return
the most recently weblog entries that are allowed to be displayed.
... add a method (i.e. WeblogEntryWrapper getSmartPin(String id)) to
page model for people that can work on templates to use it. I can also
provide an alternative main template but that will take me some time.
Relational-wise, perhaps I could just add a table for that like
create table smart_pins (
id varchar(32) not null primary key,
entry_id varchar(48) not null
);
alter table smart_pins add constraint smrtpn_entryid_fk foreign key (
entry_id ) references weblogentry ( id );
WDYT?
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