Taxonomy Support for Forums / Forum Threads

1 Requirements

Up to know, forums offer only a very flat hierarchy consisting of threads and posts. However, in many learning scenarios forums have more than one purpose and more than one meta-topic is discussed in a single forum.

• In order to support more comlex forum applications while avoiding to use multiple forums for such purposes, I porpose a taxonomy support for forum threads which might be implemented similarly to the way it was done for glossaries. When a new thread is created users should have the chance of selecting one or more taxonomy nodes (i.e. "topical fields) that the threads is associated with.
• since it is hard to anticipate all neccessary taxonomy nodes, users who have to right to create threads should be able to at least add new taxonomy nodes
• it should also  be possible to filter / sort the forum according to taxonomy entries

2 Additional Information

• Idea / concept: Marko Glaubitz, marko.glaubitz@rz.uni-freiburg.de
  
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3 Discussion

Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen], 05 AUG 2022: This request no longer fulfills the requirements of the Feature Wiki. In consultation with the maintainer I change the status of the feature request to "Redundant / outdated". If the request is still relevant, please update template and mockups.

4 Implementation

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