[cinq]

Progress update : 27/10/2003

For next version : 0.5

Accommodated Features and Bug Fixes

Bugs Fixed

Post 202 ( bug fix )
Post 215 ( bug fix )
Post 226 ( bug fix )
Post 230 ( bug fix )
Posts 214-225 , 233-237 ( bug fix )


Feature Requests and other Additional Features that have been implemented ( completed )

- Category Icon upload
- Much easier navigation, less redundant navigation
- Posted By field for articles where the original author is different from the person who uploaded it
- In adding of article, no longer need to enter date of article, it is automatically added as a timestamp
- Adding of article in AdminCP easier
- Editing of article allows moving into another category if wrongly placed
- Easier management of View All Categories ( edit, delete, view articles in category, update order )
- Update order of categories now similar to vbulletin?s method
- Easier management of View All Articles ( edit, delete, view article )
- Author name automatically entered in AdminCP when adding article
- Cleaner code
- Print article , printer friendly.
- Email article to a friend link
- Ability to search articles by title, author and content
- Pagination of article ( pagebreak string set by admin )
- Pagination of articles under each category ( number of articles shown per page set by admin )





Features yet to be implemented

Post 229
I am trying to figure out how to put thumbnail images in front of the reviews. Like the categories currently have.
Post 213
Image lead-in to article

Ratings per article
Comments per article
1 level Subcategories
User group options
Category and article icon resizing





Feature requests that will be turned down and NOT implemented

Post 198
2. Make the "Content" field look more like the posting field in vBulletin.
3. In addition to allowing for vbCode, also have the vbcode buttons above the "Content" box
4. An option in the ACP to allow/disallow vbCode and HTML and have the suggestion #3 above show or don't show based on this setting.

Cinq : I will try to implement something else that is similar but not exactly like this. Hopefully WYSIWYG though.

Post 209
xHTML ?

Cinq : Not proficient enough, sorry.

Post 213
6) Copy an entire article or category (this is very helpful for using articles or cats as templates for future articles, or perhaps archiving old ones
10) XML RSS Feed output

Cinq : 10 - not proficient enough, sorry. 6 ? nah, don? be lazy

Post 213
7) Is it possible to select that a lead-in will link to an off-site article directly (by URL)

Cinq : think I'll skip this as well, may have copyright issues plus I'm lazy