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By janra , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Mon Jul 09, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST

Now that section perms are available, I thought of another one which would make one scoop setup I'm working on a lot easier: an auto_post permission

Basically, what I'm thinking is that for, say, a club site (which is exactly what I'm building) the club execs would be able to post club news in a club_news section without needing it to go through the voting process, but post normally and go through the voting process in any other section.

I poked through the code and I think I found where stuff is auto-posted if it's in the diary section (in AdminStories.pm), but I'm not very good with perl, I've never done databases or objects in perl, and I haven't figured out how permissions are handled by the code (otherwise I'd try to do this myself)

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More on section perms... | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 hidden)

I like it (none / 0) (#1)
by hurstdog on Tue Jul 10, 2001 at 09:11:19 AM PST

Sounds good. I'll look into it when I clean up the rest of the section permissions stuff today.

-hurstdog

hmm... some thoughts (none / 0) (#2)
by hurstdog on Wed Jul 11, 2001 at 10:49:31 AM PST

Ok, I've been thinking about how I would implement this for a little bit, and I've hit a small impasse. Well, not really a place I can't pass, but a question. Where would the stories auto-post to? It would be simplest to make it auto-post to front page or to section only, but then it would be of limited use. Maybe it could have 5 different choices altogether for post_story. They would be: hide, deny, allow, auto-post-section, auto-post-frontpage. That would cover all the bases, I think.

The thing I'm most worried about is complexity for the scoop administrator. Hmm. Anyway, let me know what you think. I like the 5 choices idea.

-hurstdog

Re: 5 options by janra, 07/11/2001 05:51:17 PM PST (none / 0)

I did it with the 5 options by hurstdog, 07/12/2001 10:06:40 AM PST (none / 0)

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