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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>> 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).<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000">Mariano, does it mean that if we install nodecomment, we would have problem with getting email alert on new comments?<BR>
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On 8/26/07, <B>George Por</B> <George@community-intelligence.com> wrote: <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><FONT COLOR="#800000">This is message is to those brave souls who think that something can be done to fix a major limitation of Drupal design.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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? <BR>
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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? <BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
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