Mindscanner Manager/Archivist

twisty's picture

Design will be a challenge, but management will be pretty simple.

MINDSCANNER will require a navigable gallery of covers that display all its available issues.  There are mechanisms available for this through Drupal's Views Module. However, I am unable at this time to tell you whether this is a simple views attachment to be made, or a Views dependent module to be installed, or even something custom written.

The Gallery page is the big challenge.  The Content Type will pose a similar but smaller challenge: We need to place Issues of Mindscanner into the correct hierarchy.  This might be the Book Module hierarchy or something separate, so long as the two don't interfere with each other.  

But the beauty of this system is that once we define this newsletter content type, editing submissions should be a breeze.  Ordering book pages already makes the job much easier than the old way or sorting and webifying links.

Versioning of articles will likely be turned on.  So if a submittor or editor needs to revert the article to an earlier draft, all versions are at their disposal.