Re: Change in archive structure

Hello Glen,

Actually, you are right about the importance of this, as users usually 
searchby date for any blog, unless you are blogging about a particular 
topic on a certain day of the week.
I was also thinking about the tree structure in side menu, rather than a 
page. I can contribute to this and make a new macro so, user can include 
that in their side menu. Just want to know what steps I have to follow 
to add this enhancement/patch to Roller. Do I have to file any JIRA ? 
Can you please guide me into this.

Thanks
Gaurav


On Saturday 07 December 2013 07:20 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
> Hmm, I might argue that the date a blog article is posted is of 
> secondary importance to its content, e.g., I group my blog entries by 
> subject: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/blog_article_index, date 
> is largely irrelevant.  Wouldn't your tree view be more useful if it 
> was broken up by category and blog articles underneath instead of by 
> dates?
>
> Another problem with emphasizing dates is that they make blogs look 
> obsolete more quickly, because sometimes months go by at a time before 
> someone blogs again, and a date archive then makes the blog look 
> inactive.  Having lists by category gives a blog a much longer shelf 
> life, and doesn't "punish" a blogger who maintains his older entries 
> instead of just entering in new entries.
>
> The blog archive page is probably seldom used today (you may be better 
> off removing it), the tree view you're contemplating might be better 
> in a side menu of a blog (just like here: 
> http://coheigea.blogspot.com/ [1]).  A macro that would provide the 
> data allowing something like [1] to be constructed would be a nice 
> enhancement to Roller (but, actually, we may already be able to 
> support that--I'm not sure.)  Patches to Roller JIRA welcome.
>
> The current archive page *could* be useful if you're always blogging 
> about a particular topic on a certain day of the week. If Wednesdays 
> you're always blogging about X and Fridays always Y a calendar view 
> does a better job of allowing someone to get to all "X" or "Y" 
> articles better than the tree view in [1].
>
> Regards,
> Glen
>
>
> On 12/06/2013 08:45 AM, Gaurav wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The archives which are now show as in calender. There are some 
>> shortcoming of that is we can't see the whole list of blogs month and 
>> year wise.
>> There can have some sort of tree structure or we can have some 
>> different macro, so we can redesign the archives page as user want.
>>
>> Tree Structure
>>
>> >2013
>>     >Jan
>>         >Blog1
>>         >Blog2
>>     >March
>> >2013
>>     >April
>>         >Blg4
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Gaurav
>


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