[[I hate editing people's posts, even if I'm not messing with their words, but to save people time, I closed this thread, and moved the new announcement of version 1.0.6 to it's own thread. Ian had perfect timing, after 90+ posts :) You can jump to the new messages here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=200939 -- pugdog ]]
Here is an idea for monitoring how much work an editor has been doing on your site. I imagine you, like me, don't want inactive editors continuing to have access to your editor browser and categories. I also reward editors depending on how much activity and responsibility they have, and this has been proving to be a difficult task. Read on...
What about new fields in the Editor Table:
Last_Visit (Date), Total_Visits (int), Visits_this_Month (int), Total_Validations (int), Validations_this_Month (int), Total_New_Categories (int), Total_Moved_Categories (int) etc...
So that whenever any function (add,move,copy,validate - link or category) is clicked in the editor browser, the appropriate column is incremented in the Table at the same time. The Last_Visit column would be updated each time the browser is refreshed, or opened, or when a function is performed, which ever is the most efficient.
In the admin panel, you could then look at your editor's stats by opening the Editors table, or integrating these numbers into a nice stats plugin like what Paul is developing (**HOPEFULLY**).
I would imagine this is best done as a plug-in, as the browser.pm would have to be modified otherwise.
I have the ideas, but not the abilities... any takers on helping me with this one?
Step One and Two of the Plugin Wizard - No Problem. Step Three is the tough one.
I Imagine I need hooks for each of the above actions (add cat, add link, mod cat, mod link, del cat, del link, move cat, move link, copy link, validate link and something for loggin into the browser area)?
Plugins::Editor_Monitor::
There needs to be a "Plugins for Dummies" book
Here is an idea for monitoring how much work an editor has been doing on your site. I imagine you, like me, don't want inactive editors continuing to have access to your editor browser and categories. I also reward editors depending on how much activity and responsibility they have, and this has been proving to be a difficult task. Read on...
What about new fields in the Editor Table:
Last_Visit (Date), Total_Visits (int), Visits_this_Month (int), Total_Validations (int), Validations_this_Month (int), Total_New_Categories (int), Total_Moved_Categories (int) etc...
So that whenever any function (add,move,copy,validate - link or category) is clicked in the editor browser, the appropriate column is incremented in the Table at the same time. The Last_Visit column would be updated each time the browser is refreshed, or opened, or when a function is performed, which ever is the most efficient.
In the admin panel, you could then look at your editor's stats by opening the Editors table, or integrating these numbers into a nice stats plugin like what Paul is developing (**HOPEFULLY**).
I would imagine this is best done as a plug-in, as the browser.pm would have to be modified otherwise.
I have the ideas, but not the abilities... any takers on helping me with this one?
Step One and Two of the Plugin Wizard - No Problem. Step Three is the tough one.
I Imagine I need hooks for each of the above actions (add cat, add link, mod cat, mod link, del cat, del link, move cat, move link, copy link, validate link and something for loggin into the browser area)?
Plugins::Editor_Monitor::
There needs to be a "Plugins for Dummies" book