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Discuss This! User Work Flow

Discuss This! Work FlowThe Discuss This! module enables you to remove comments from a page, but still let people post comments about it. The page teaser will be used in a forum post and the valuable user comment attached to that forum.

The figure on the right1 shows you the expected process:

  1. The user comes to your website.
  2. Situation Assessment:
    1. The user can post and the page does not yet have a discussion, show the "Discuss This!" link2
    2. The user can post and the page already has a discussion, show the "Participate" link3
    3. The user must log in, show a message asking the user to log in first
    4. If the user must log in and can register an account4, show a message asking the user to log in or register an account first5
  3. From the "Discuss This!" link, the user is sent to a Discuss This! comment form6
  4. When saving a comment, Discuss This! may create the forum topic7 if it did not exist yet
  5. From the "Participate" link, the user is directly sent to the forum where one can read existing comments and then post a comment as usual
  • 1. Click the figure to enlarge it.
  • 2. The text of the link can be set by the administrator.
  • 3. On top of the link, when the page has an existing discussion, a few of the latest comments can be displayed after the links.
  • 4. We offer the user to register an account when it is possible to do so without direct administrative intervention.
  • 5. IMPORTANT: When a registration is required, the user loses the reference to the page (shown as the red arrow in the figure.)
  • 6. The Discuss This! module has its own comment form to avoid creating a forum topic before we are sure a comment will indeed be submitted. This is crucial to avoid spam by bots that ignore the nofollow hints.
  • 7. When the creation of the forum fails, the user is likely sent to your home page by Drupal Core. This happens when you have modules that add required fields that are not filled with default on initialization.

Comments

Discuss This make it also Blog This ?

Hi.

The module is great. But at this time I wonder if it
would be possible to change the content type at
user or webmaster level, so instead of discussion in
a forum, a blog could be chosen, or even a specific
content type.

Could this be done easily ?

Many thanks for this great module,
for Your comments and suggestions.

BEst regards,

Roland

Re: Discuss This make it also Blog This ?

There are some inherent problems with not sending it to the Forum.

One of them is that posting a discussion to the same content type may cause some logic problems on your website. Although I would think that should work, technically.

The other problem is to do with the forum identifier. The Discuss This module takes that in account as expected. Posting to another content type would prevent the handling of a term (or make it quite a bit more complicated.)

I guess that #1 would be up to the administrator to choose whether that's wise.

And we could have a first version for #2 that simply ignores the taxonomies.

Now, you are refering Blogs. Those have an author that's quite specific. Would the current Discuss This selection of the author work for you?

Thank you.
Alexis