NuWiki possible for second post?

[kafi]

I wonder wheter would be possible to integrate NuWiki for second post.

First post would be Question and Second would be collaborated answer to it
... and discussion will follow....

[ElfMage]

This is not supported with the current version of NuWiki.

Not idea, but you could use the article title for the question, and the body for the reply.

Or use headlines to separate the two sections...

[kafi]

Thank you for the answer ElfMage .-)

Yes that is quite workaround, will see. Another thing is that I am showing only first post with question to unregistered users (and bots).... so this workaround wouldnt work for me (unless I decide to cease the "firstpost" aproach...)...

But basically this might be worth to consider (if doable) to add as feature, because I see this to be usefull not only for articles but also for collaborative solution-like reply.
Imagine somene asking about some php function ... collaborated reply might be very handy (altough motivation to post reply is smaller than within disussion...)

[ElfMage]

Interesting concept. Let me think about it to see how (and if) it can be implemented. Thanks.

[Alfa1]

Ehm, I just wikified a second post here by accident. See: Can a wiki page have custom fields?

[ElfMage]

Not fully 'Wikified'.

You can use NuWiki Syntax. Like TOCs, Headlines, and Wiki links in any post in the forum. Originally this was done to allow linking to a NuWiki article from any post. But, as a side-effect, the rest of NuWiki's BBCode were left enabled for the whole forum.

It is not fully 'wikified', because only you (the creator) can edit it.

[taylor]

I'm really interested in this. Do you have a sense of the probablity that NuWiki will be able to support such a configuration? I realize this is a lot to ask, but if it looks probably, do you have an estimate on when it may make it in the product?

TIA

[pegasus]

Use the [anything] BB-code to hide portions of posts from unregistered users (you can find this as an addon at vbulletin.org). With [anything] you can embed a vBulletin XHTML conditional into the post. Since NuWiki's posts are not cached anyway (to prevent links from being red even after an article is created), [anything] should not have any negative effects on your forum's performance.

[ElfMage]

That's an interesting solution.

However, NuWiki articles and posts are cached using vBulletin's built-in post cache system. We keep track of all articles pointing to a non-existing article, and when this is created, we go back and update the post cache.

Taylor, I think that this feature is not difficult to add, there are a couple of tricks, but no show stops.. I think.

This feature would only be available in a NuWiki Forum is working in 'Wiki Mode', and you can only have one 'wikified' post per thread.

I am thinking that we could have this implemented in 2-4 weeks.

[taylor]

Originally Posted by pegasus

Use the [anything] BB-code to hide portions of posts from unregistered users (you can find this as an addon at vbulletin.org). With [anything] you can embed a vBulletin XHTML conditional into the post. Since NuWiki's posts are not cached anyway (to prevent links from being red even after an article is created), [anything] should not have any negative effects on your forum's performance.

I'm a bit confused. Is this suggestion related to the original suggestion or something related to the work around? For my use, I don't have any interest in hiding certain posts from non-registered users.

Instead, I'm looking for functionality that would automatically create a second post in every new thread. The first post in the thread would be the author's original post. The second post would be a NuWiki article that any registered member could edit (and non-registereds could view). Users replies would continue in the thread, as they do in non-wikified forums. The only difference is the automatic creation of the second post which is a Wiki article embedded in a thread.

My apologies if I somehow misinterpreted something.

[taylor]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Taylor, I think that this feature is not difficult to add, there are a couple of tricks, but no show stops.. I think.

This feature would only be available in a NuWiki Forum is woring in 'Wiki Mode', and you can only have one 'wikified' post per thread.

I am thinking that we could have this implemented in 2-4 weeks.

My last post was being composed when your response was posted, please ignore it. Thanks for the reply. I'll look forward to watching your progress.

Thanks.

[DaveHanson]

Originally Posted by taylor

I don't have any interest in hiding certain posts from non-registered users.

Instead, I'm looking for functionality that would automatically create a second post in every new thread. The first post in the thread would be the author's original post. The second post would be a NuWiki article that any registered member could edit (and non-registereds could view). Users replies would continue in the thread, as they do in non-wikified forums. The only difference is the automatic creation of the second post which is a Wiki article embedded in a thread.

Just echoing taylor's request here...I'd be very interested, and also interested in hiding/showing posts from various classes of users (registered/non-registered, users at various levels, mods, etc.)

[ElfMage]

Interesting. Could you elaborate a bit more on the hiding/posting posts from different classes of users?

Would you have a thread, and then hide/show the posts based on who's browsing the site?

How would you determine which posts to hide/show?

Thanks.

[kafi]

I see that there would be more interested users in this feature. Let me elaborate my initial request

First post is question and can be hidden or visible to unregistered (or other desired usergroup).
Second post (aka NuWiki) would be visible or hidden to others. (in my case I need to hide the content from not-subscribed usergroups, but there is also room to use it for "open" forums on my board).
Following discussions can be again hidden or visible to usergroups according administartor settings and requirements

Why? My board is something like expertsexchange.com "Any" users can see questions but not answers. Only subscribers can see answers.

The convenience of this approach is that questions are spidered although the content is hidden and people are brought from google where they look for solutions mostly with question like keywords....

[DaveHanson]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Interesting. Could you elaborate a bit more on the hiding/posting posts from different classes of users?

Would you have a thread, and then hide/show the posts based on who's browsing the site?

Right. So we might have a thread that has 10 posts everyone can read. Scattered among those ten are five others...two which only registered users can see (they see 12 in all), two more which mods can see (they see 14), and one more open to only admins (so they see 15 total.)

How would you determine which posts to hide/show?

Based on the status/rank of the reader logged in.

Is that clearer?

Thanks for considering all this so early on.