[Board] Models & Persistence about collaction_api HOT 2 CLOSED

@Xazin taking a look at this now. Is there any documentation about what each model needs to do? I can try to make some educated guesses about what we'll need but it would probably be better to get more information first.

Based on the naming I'm going to guess this is the structure:

• Forum
• • ForumPermissions
• • Thread
• • • Post
• • • • PostInfo
• • • • • UserInfo
• • • • LastPostInfo
• • • Poll

I'm not sure what ThreadPrefixes is or where ReportedPosts should go. Can you clear some of this up for me and let me know if I'm on the right track?

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In #documentation on Alack there should be some help with this, there is also a diagram with all the properties.

Relationships:

 ONE FORUM TO MANY FORUMS
 ONE FORUM TO MANY FORUM PERMISSIONS
 ONE FORUM TO MANY THREADS
 ONE THREAD TO MANY POSTS
 ONE POLL TO ONE THREAD
 MANY THREAD PREFIXES TO MANY FORUM

As I am on the phone, sorry if the below is not super clear.

A forum can contain many forums. A forum can be a category, that contains forums. However a forum that is not a category can still contain other forums, these would be sub-forums.

Some examples:

• General Board
  • News
  • Feedback
    • Rejected
    • Accepted

The above are all forums. And now if we want to look at why each forum can have many permissions, it is because they have a need to differentiate permissions per role (group of users).

Same example with permissions:

• General Board (No one can post or make threads in this "category")
  • News (Only admins can make threads, but everyone can make posts. Polls as well, admins can create, all can vote)
  • Feedback (Everyone can post threads and posts, everyone can create polls and vote)
    • Rejected (No one can create threads and posts - Readonly "archive")
    • Accepted (Same as rejected)

It's a bit of a shallow example, because permissions also define who can edit their own posts, and who can delete their own posts etc.

As for thread prefixes, they are only allowed in specific forums, and only specific groups can use them in those forums.

The above example again:

• General Board
  • News [Announcement]
  • Feedback & Suggestions [Suggestion] [Feedback] [Criticism]
    • Rejected [Rejected] [Suggestion] [Feedback]
    • Accepted [Accepted] [Suggestion] [Feedback]

Bit a bad example, but it should make the outline a bit clearer.

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