[Imc-drupal-dev] hiding articles in Drupal 5.1 - ideas?

[Sebastian]

hey...

* Sebastian <aotearoa at kodeaffe.de> [2007-03-02 15:26 +1300]:
> 
> thanks for all your replies...
> 
> * dan mackinlay imap <dan at possumpalace.org> [2007-03-01 17:40 +1300]:
> > Hm. nice solution Sebastian. I wonder how it will work with loads of  
> > CCK fields?
> > 
> > Anyway, the module doe exist:
> > http://drupal.org/project/nodetype
> > 
> > "Nodetype
> > kkaefer - February 3, 2007 - 14:29
> > Change the content type of your posts while editing them.
> > 5.x-1.x-dev"
> 
> interesting, looks like this takes care of many things.
> 
> a biggie, though: what do people do about comments? it seems like they
> are always attached to a node. but what if we only want to hide one
> comment?

to answer myself, i found:
http://drupal.org/project/comment_mover

unfortunately, i did not figure out how to convert a comment to content
type 'hidden' in a one-click operation. and no way at all to revert the
'hidden' back to a comment.

hmm...
 Sebastian


> > On 01/03/2007, at 14:50 , Sebastian wrote:
> > >
> > > we at Aotearoa IMC have a test site with Drupal running (again),  
> > > version
> > > 5.1. checkout http://dev.indymedia.org.nz.
> > >
> > > does anybody of you have a good idea how to handle the hiding of
> > > articles? at the moment, our prospective process seems rather
> > > tedious:
> > >
> > > 1) set category to 'hidden'
> > > 2) add an HTML snippet to have a big notice in red, saying: 'this
> > >    article is hidden'
> > > 3) change the author of the article, so she cannot change itback to
> > >    non-hidden
> > >
> > > i reckon it would be nicer to have a content type 'hidden', derived  
> > > from
> > > page. in case an article has to be hidden, just change its type to
> > > 'hidden', all done on behalf of the editor.
> > >
> > > alas, i have not found a possibility to switch content types yet. i am
> > > aware that e.g. switching 'image' to 'page' is rather pointless, hence
> > > this feature is not supposed to be found easily.

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