DESCRIPTION
============
This file gives a brief guide to the Answers Module, which provides a
question-answer service.
HOW IT WORKS
============
This module defines two content types, questions and answers related to
questions.
It defines views and page displays to work with them.
It offers a series of submodules that add:
- Answers_Notifications: Subscribing to questions and getting emails when new
answers are added
- Answers_Userpoints: Point system for questions and answers (via userpoints and
rules)
- Answers_Voting: Voting on questions and answers
- Best_Answer: Flagging of the best answer for a question (which is then shown
first)
TYPES OF USERS
============
There are 6 relevant roles (these are not drupal system roles but rather types
of users for the module):
1 Viewers: Those who view questions and answers
2 Question Authors: Those who ask a question.
3 Answer Authors: Those who answer a question
4 Site Administrator: Those who have the "administer settings" privilege and
who can set up the module
5 Site Developer: Those who code sites using modules
6 Module Developers: Those who want to create modules using the Answers
functionality
What the module does:
• Question Authors can create new questions by going to the path
'node/add/question' (in this approach, users are taken directly to the new
question form)
• Viewers can review a list of all questions. This is available at the path
'questions/'
• When viewing the list of questions, Viewers can sort by author, title,
post date, and number of answers. If answers_voting is implemented, viewers
can sort by votes.
• When displaying a question, the system shows all the answers to that question
• When deleting a question, the system also deletes all of the answers to it.
Features that are coming (but have not yet be re-implemented in 7.x-4.x)
• Question Authors can create new questions by going to the path
'questions/start_ask' (in this approach, users are asked to review questions
that match theirs first)
• Viewers can review a list of questions that match a search query. This is
available at the path 'questions/search' [NOT YET RE-IMPLEMENTED]
• Viewers can also see lists of questions they asked and they answered
HISTORY & KEY CONTRIBUTORS
============================
This module is based on:
• The original D5 "answers" module written by Amanuel Tewolde.
• The original D6 conversion of that module written by Inders Singh
• The original features version of the module written by Greg Harvey
• An updated features version of the module was written in 2011 by Chip Cleary.
• Module reengineered (features removed) in Dec 2012 by Alessandro Mascherpa.
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- DESCRIPTION
- ============
-
- This file gives a brief guide to the Answers Module, which provides a
- question-answer service.
-
- HOW IT WORKS
- ============
-
- This module defines two content types, questions and answers related to
- questions.
-
- It defines views and page displays to work with them.
-
- It offers a series of submodules that add:
- - Answers_Notifications: Subscribing to questions and getting emails when new
- answers are added
- - Answers_Userpoints: Point system for questions and answers (via userpoints and
- rules)
- - Answers_Voting: Voting on questions and answers
- - Best_Answer: Flagging of the best answer for a question (which is then shown
- first)
-
- TYPES OF USERS
- ============
-
- There are 6 relevant roles (these are not drupal system roles but rather types
- of users for the module):
- 1 Viewers: Those who view questions and answers
- 2 Question Authors: Those who ask a question.
- 3 Answer Authors: Those who answer a question
- 4 Site Administrator: Those who have the "administer settings" privilege and
- who can set up the module
- 5 Site Developer: Those who code sites using modules
- 6 Module Developers: Those who want to create modules using the Answers
- functionality
-
- What the module does:
- • Question Authors can create new questions by going to the path
- 'node/add/question' (in this approach, users are taken directly to the new
- question form)
- • Viewers can review a list of all questions. This is available at the path
- 'questions/'
- • When viewing the list of questions, Viewers can sort by author, title,
- post date, and number of answers. If answers_voting is implemented, viewers
- can sort by votes.
- • When displaying a question, the system shows all the answers to that question
- • When deleting a question, the system also deletes all of the answers to it.
-
- Features that are coming (but have not yet be re-implemented in 7.x-4.x)
- • Question Authors can create new questions by going to the path
- 'questions/start_ask' (in this approach, users are asked to review questions
- that match theirs first)
- • Viewers can review a list of questions that match a search query. This is
- available at the path 'questions/search' [NOT YET RE-IMPLEMENTED]
- • Viewers can also see lists of questions they asked and they answered
-
- HISTORY & KEY CONTRIBUTORS
- ============================
-
- This module is based on:
- • The original D5 "answers" module written by Amanuel Tewolde.
- • The original D6 conversion of that module written by Inders Singh
- • The original features version of the module written by Greg Harvey
- • An updated features version of the module was written in 2011 by Chip Cleary.
- • Module reengineered (features removed) in Dec 2012 by Alessandro Mascherpa.
