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[Gary Mort]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Arzie Hardin <arzieh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though I am not as familiar with the plumbing details, I have to say I am a
> bit torn over K2 and most all of the other new "CCK" (content creation kit)
> solutions, as well as some of the old directory solutions now "re-branded"
> as CCK.
>
> The biggest missed opportunity to me with with having the ability to create
> new content types is the seemingly obvious capability to also define new
> organizational models, specifically multi-categorization which all of the
> new solutions miss. Both, having more than two levels (e.g. section and
> category in joomla core) for each content type, as well as the ability to
> have one piece of content appear in more than a single category. This is
> already possible with the major directory extentions (Sobi2, Moset tree) for
> listings, but it is dead on arrival in all of the CCK solutions except for
> one,
>

My perspective is completely different.  I think that this solution already
exists for almost all of them, including regular old Joomla content.

A complex many to many categorization system is best done via tags.  You can
setup a tag system where only you get to create the tags, and only your
authors can pick them.

You can do multi-levle cagtegorization by borrowing a simple trick off of
venerable old Lotus Notes and name your tags
<category><seperator><sub-category>

For example:
Apparel\Shirts\Fancy
Appare\Shirts\muscle

Then it's just a matter of a few modules and display layouts to explode the
tags.


For my own personal use, I tend towards the following section/category
structure:

Ideas\Site
Ideas\Articles
Ideas\Blog
Ideas\Pages

then

Draft\Site
Draft\Articels
Draft\Blog
Draft\Pages

to

Ready\Site
Ready\Articles
Ready\Blog
Ready\Pages

and then someday

Archived\Site
Archived\Articles
Archived\Blog
Archived\Pages


Where Site is for articles about the company or site.
Articles is for general informational stuff
Blogs is for "blog" style articles
And Pages is for static pages


The benefit of this system is that you can setup your search plugins so they
only index ready and archive items.  While you can still "publish" ideas and
drafts and send direct links to others to solict feedback without having to
give them an account on your site.


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