[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

George Por George at Community-Intelligence.com
Mon Aug 27 00:10:50 UTC 2007


>> >  nodecomment helps a lot, although IMO it should provide a wrapper to let
>> other modules (like comment_notify) do their work seamlessly (like category
>> does with taxonomy).
> 
> Mariano, does it mean that if we install nodecomment, we would have problem
> with getting email alert on new comments?
> george
> 
> 
> On 8/26/07, George Por <George at community-intelligence.com> wrote:
>> This is message is to those brave souls who think that something can be done
>> to fix a major limitation of Drupal design.
>> 
>> I am talking about the fact that only nodes can have categories and tags but
>> not comments. That means that a forum topic opener and blog can have them
>> individual blog entries and topic replies not, makes those key modules
>> largely useless from the perspective of growing the a group's capacity for
>> collaborative meaning making.
>> 
>> I talked with many programmers and they all said that adding rags to comment
>> cannot be done in Drupal because of its architecture. Is it really so? No
>> amount of money could buy developer time to fix that? If any of you have a
>> serious proposal, we would consider it.
>> 
>> When we used Drupal 4.6. And 4.7, we got that problem partially resolved by
>> using flexinode to mimick a blog, and then we could add tags to the entries.
>> However, we moved to 5.1 and, to my knowledge, flexinode doesn't work there.
>> Can that be changed?
>> 
>> Another workaround would be to use Moveable Type or another dedicated blog
>> software and link the MT blogs fom our Drupal-based home page. However, in
>> that case we would loose the handiness of one search command working on all
>> content types at once. Any work around that?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> george 
>> 
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