Re: Getting article aid (giving or not givingpubid) via the title

"mikespub" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >...
> The search function exists, which is why I recommended it as a first
> approach. Now if there is a valid case for retrieving an article by
exactly
> matching a specific field (and both you & Jason seem to say there is),
> then we can easily add that as part of the standard articles API as well.

I am wondering if there is scope for a more generic hooked module to provide
alternative references to items in modules? To my mind, linking items of any
type to data maintained or updated from an external system could use this
type of thing - and that could apply to any type of item. It is almost like
(well, very like) using an alternative set of item IDs layered over the top
of the existing data.

> Any preferences regarding input parameters & output formats ? Please
> put them in a feature request too, so we can keep track of it :-)