Discussion
Tool to manage discussions
Installation
Create a new discussion
Documentation
A dicussion can be added to a topic by adding
%DISCUSS% to the end of a topic. You may add a Discussion
TWikiForm to the
topic to bring about an array of structured information to it. This is the case by default if you used the DiscussionFactory tool.
The Discussion's form is derived from the normal
TWikiTopic containing the
TopicType and Summary fields. The Summary field is used
to give the discussion a kind of description or headline. In addition it is a CategorizedTopic that allows to assign tags and
categories to mark the discussion to be about a certain subject. Note, that all CategorizedTopics are retrievable in the
WebTagCloud. Finally there are two properties of a Discussion that are unique to them, the Name and the State field.
The Name field is initialized with the
WikiName of the (registered) user that opened this discussion. This will be the
person in charge to decide when to "close" a Discussion. This is done by changing the State from "open" to "close". Note, that
you can only comment on open discussions while closed discussions will only display the comments collected so far. You may
chose to open a discussion later on at any time.
See also:
DiscussionTemplate,
RenderDiscussion,
RenderListOfDiscussions