Open Problem Garden

Day 6 (Dec 19)

I couldn't help myself and did tinker with drupal again.

1) If we just want to enter stuff and somehow view it, then all we need is TeX.
So I went after clever viewing options.

Sofar I did made a simple filter to find pages based on title and area, see
menu->frontpage

2) I decided we don't need three places to select Area. There were three, indeed:
- one by taxonomy
- one by Category
- one by flexinode

So: I uninstalled taxonomy and changed the name of field provided by flexinode
to decrease confusion.
(Btw. uninstalling taxonomy had the drawback of loosing "area" from the
above mentioned filter. This was recovered by installing the "taxonomy-wrapper" --
taxonomy.module that comes with category.module.

3) At this point I still could not enter any new problem as I could not enter
the category.module's Area. The reason was simple: we had no categories, just
containers. This still has to be repaired. Good treatise on categories, containers,
and the like is at http://category.greenash.net.au/node/91.

4) The main issue now, is that the filter provided by views.module does not see
fields that Open problem node has (that are created by flexi-nodes).
Hopefully, CCK will be a solution to this.

5) Last remark: I quickly learned sql and (as expected) it is easy to write any
sort of filter/sort that we might need. So if instant solutions would fail, we
can always code something easily ourselves.