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Re: Database Piece Count
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lugnet.admin.database
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Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:20:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> In lugnet.admin.database, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> >
> > - Set up a hotmail (yahoo, or whatever... a peeron account works fine too)
> > account to receive the db update/change/addition requests.
> > - Give the password to the mail account to all the db admins
> > - create the form
> > - put the url to the form on the admin.db front page
> > - when people submit changes, they get mailed to the hotmail account
> > - when admins have time to work on changes, they log into the account and as
> > they work items, they can remove them from the inbox and file them in a
> > different folder (this works best if it's an online folder system like yahoo
> > mail offers) like "changeCompleted", "rejected", "needsInfo" etc.
>
> But if I follow this correctly, the only "link" to submitting info
> to the Guide will be on this page:
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/database/
Yes.
> To me that still falls into the category of "out-of-the-way". I
> don't imagine the majority of LUGNET users venture into the .admin
> heirarchy, so they'd never know it to exist (whether this majority
> of LUGNET users would even submit data to the Guide in the first place
> is another issue altogether). I think a functionality like that
> described above, front-ended by an access point on all Guide pages
> (or in the Guide "header") would be more productive. Otherwise
> I think we would end up with an improved system in place, but one
> which few people know about/ remember/ use.
True, but...
> Granted, it requires modification to LUGNET pages. But that's
> been done before. Given how well LUGNET seems to be designed,
> I would hazard to guess that it requires modifying just one
> source document template. Once activated, all future Guide
> queries will display with the new button/link.
Phase 2! In phase one, hang it where I suggested because it means NO, ZIP,
NADA, ZERO change to LUGNET code. Let the heavy users start using it and
work the bugs out and if it looks good, THEN lobby to get the template
changed for guide pages to include it.
Spiral, Spiral, Spiral! Let the "one correct anchor point" slide for now,
eh? I suspect the LUGNETadminietypes have their hands full at the mo. Get
somebody to implement the page first.
(I architected it for ya. :-) My work is done. :-) )
> So it's just down to getting that page change implemented.
> Perhaps the same opportunity could be used to pull down / update
> the BrickWise shopping report, which has been in a coma for many
> moons now. Uh-oh, there's the dreaded Change Of Project
> Scope(tm). That's gotta be an architect's rule, too ;]
Chapter 0. :-)
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