RSF Blog Tool Exercise
Information
This details the design information for the RSF blog exercise (rsfBlog). For this exercise we will create a simple working blog tool designed to allow students to create and share blog entries in a sakai site.
Requirements
Blog Wow will have 5 screens for this exercise
Home view - includes a list of the current blogs in the site (the blog for this user will appear at the top)
blogs are created using a "start blogging" link at the top, anyone with the start blog permission may create a blog
this list should include the date of the most recent blog entry
Blogs view - includes a list of all entries in a blog
includes add link and edit links for the owner of the blog (or admins)
includes link to remove a blog entry (with all associated comments)
also includes links to add comments (the link will indicate the number of current comments)
the owner information and a profile will appear on the right side of the screen
also lists all the current comments on this entry in order above the new comment textarea and submit button
comments cannot be removed
Add/Edit Entry screen - allows the blog owner to create or update blog entries
this should update the modify date for a blog entry also
Settings view - this allows the blog owner to edit their profile
Permissions view - uses the permissions helper
Data Model
BLOG - represents a blog in a site (site, owner, profile, settings)
ENTRY - represents a single entry in a blog (blog, title, text, date modified)
COMMENT - represents a single comment on an entry (entry, text, date modified)
Implementation details
Permissions
create - user can create a new blog
entry.write - user can create and remove their entries
entry.write.any - user can create and remove any entry
entry.read - user can read group entries
entry.read.any - user can read any group entry
comments.add - user can add comments
comments.remove.any - user can remove any comment