Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2008/11/19 23:34
There are currently 3 types of posts: Blogs, Forum and Book Page.
 
Some of you may have noticed the similarities between these 3 types:
  • There is a first post (rich text editor - HTML type), which can be tagged, files attached
  • On which users can comment. Comments are  organized in hierarchy (flat view is possible too)
  • All three types are shown on the New Posts page.
Of course, there would not need to be 3 types if they didn't have some differences:
 
Blogs:
  • Post belong to 1 user. Only he (and admins) can edit.
  • All user blog posts can be viewed, in a blog-like reversed chronological list, on the user page (my blogs are shown here)
  • When viewing blogs, a collapsable section appears in the left sidebar. (bug:No title). It shows useful links (my blogs, add new blog, Top bloggers, blogs grouped by year / month, etc)
Forums:
  • Belongs to 1 user. Only he (and admins) can edit.
  • Post are organized in section and sub-sections
  • The forum page provides a nice UI
Book pages:
  • All users can edit
  • Can be organized in hierarchy (book, section, sub-section)
  • Table of contents are automatically generated
  • Printer-friendly version will print the current page and all sub-pages
So, one can see that the same concept is applied slightly differently to give a great knowledge-base environment