Question Topic Creation Behavior and Date of Posts

Would it be possible to include a further setting in the discussbot plugin back-end that would determine when the new forum topics are created?

For example, it would be great if I could set that new topics were only created when the first comment arrives, NOT when the article is first read (or just loaded on the front page/blog pages).

Thanks.

Also, it's annoying to see new forum posts made when somebody visits very old Joomla articles.

Would it be possible to use the article's original creation date when creating the first forum post?

Totally agree with pedrohsi. The additionnal option would help to prevent the thread pollution of people brownsing the database. instead, it would be created only when someone leaves the first comment.
Thanks for all the job done anyway!!!!

Agreed - I couldn't understand what was happening when all my articles started appearing!!! - Please can default behaviour be only to include an article when it has a comment made.

Also is there anyway to stop the actual article itself appearing - I find Kunena isn't parsing the code correctly and the articles just don't look as intended - I LOVE the concept of the discuss bot -

So in summary surely it would suit the majority better if...

a) It only created forum topics for articles with comment(s)
b) It didn't bring in and replicate the whole article (maybe just a link to it would be cool)

Great Job though!

wish it could be set by date, no topics made for articles older than dd:mm:yy

Actually, I like when it does both (which is how I have the OLD non-Kunena team developed discussbot set up).

For example:

The first line of the forum post says:

** This thread discusses the content article: (Article Title, with the title being a link back to the news article) **

And then the full article follows in the post.

But I also agree that it shouldn't populate it without someone making a comment or clicking the link to push it over.

Are any Devs reading this thread do we know?

Hope these important tweaks can be made prior to Kunena 1.6 stable....

So in summary from all points made above it's having back-end options the following. I can't help thinking that Option b in both cases would by far be preferred by almost everyone above the current behaviour of the plugin. I don't think it's just me being selfish! :sick:

1) When to create Discussion Topic for an Article?

OPTIONS:
a) Automatically when it's first read (current behaviour)
b) When the first comment is made on the article
c) For all articles created after a given date

2) What to include in the first post of the created Discussion Topic?

a) The whole article content (current behaviour)
b) A link that simply says 'The following discussion has begun based upon this article LINK'
c) Both of the above at once (presumably b before a!)

I definately agree with the above issues.
I think there should be an option to mimic the behavior of the old plugin, that is a forum post for a specific article should only be created only if the user decides to comment on an article...and this should be the default behavior in my opinion...since the majority of the sites would use this option...

andy bonner wrote: ...1) When to create Discussion Topic for an Article?

OPTIONS:
a) Automatically when it's first read (current behaviour)
b) When the first comment is made on the article
c) For all articles created after a given date

2) What to include in the first post of the created Discussion Topic?

a) The whole article content (current behaviour)
b) A link that simply says 'The following discussion has begun based upon this article LINK'
c) Both of the above at once (presumably b before a!)

I agree with this, it'll be great have this settings in back-end

rgponce wrote:

andy bonner wrote: ...1) When to create Discussion Topic for an Article?

OPTIONS:
a) Automatically when it's first read (current behaviour)
b) When the first comment is made on the article
c) For all articles created after a given date

2) What to include in the first post of the created Discussion Topic?

a) The whole article content (current behaviour)
b) A link that simply says 'The following discussion has begun based upon this article LINK'
c) Both of the above at once (presumably b before a!)

I agree with this, it'll be great have this settings in back-end

Will the devs consider to implement the feature 1b (create forum thread only when the first comment is made)?
I think that this functionality should be obvious...