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

[Cameron Gregg]

Rob Baker wrote:
> Cam:
> "Hidden comments - we just unpublish them (waiting for a better solution)."
> 
> Actually, I think that's the great solution.  One thing I came up with
> today while working on the site for Boston Indymedia is setting up a
> page and block for viewing unpublished nodes using the Views module.
> As a note to everyone: if you're not using the Views module to setup
> your site, you're missing out.  You can basically setup a content type
> for everything found in DadaIMC without writing a line of PHP in a
> custom block or page -- nice.  So you setup a view for published
> equals no under the filters, make sure your other views for stories,
> pages, otherpress and events equals yes, and done.  Got a page for
> hidden nodes without opening the code editor.
> 
> And Drupal doesn't search unpublished content (don't think it does
> anyways), so it's better than trying to filter off something in the
> taxonomy or CCK field because that's not going to provide better
> search results without the cruft of junk stories we're trying to tuck
> under the rug.
> 
> Plus, using the Akismet spam module (better than the spam one IMO),
> you can get a publish/unpublish link right under the headline (in
> addition to the mark as spam option), making hiding articles a one
> click on/off switch.  Pretty slick.
> 
> Rob
> Boston IMC

Thanks Rob,

some extremely good points there, I'll certainly be considering this option.
Again, I have a concern - we have some stuff that is unpublished that we 
don't want anybody seeing...EVER!  ...unless they are in the collective 
and wish to have a look.

So our hidden wire is stuff that breaks ed pol. Unpublished stuff is the 
really nasty shit, where people make personal attacks, tell outright 
lies, mention peoples names (thats the biggy) and so on.

I certainly like having these two levels of 'hidden'.

Cam
Sydney IMC