Use cases
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Tom has a set of data he wants to public and have people take a look at. However, no one is interested to know his data because no one know who Tom is. Tom would love for people to find his impressive work, but does not want to copy it from his linkedin profile to his post. He would love for his work to be shown in every posts somehow so that it gives more credits to what he says.
Approach
Each project has a Forum. A Forum has one or many ModeratorModerators, and many Threads. A Thread is created by a user (Author) and has many Replies. A Replies Reply is created by a user (Author).
In the second phase, we could add new features so that a user could help the community by marking a Thread is helpful, and by marking a Reply is helpful or unhelpful.
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Mockups
Phase 1
Summary View
Paginated Threads
Thread View
Paginated Replies
Author View
Moderator View
Files View
Phase 2
Summary View
Thread View
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Removed (Hidden) Replies
New Thread
New Reply
Models
API
| Action | Intended User | URI | Method | Request Parameters | Request Body | Response Body | Notification Sent to ( |
| P2) | ||||
| 1 | Get Forum Metadata for a Project | authorized user | /forum/{projectId} | GET |
| Forum |
| 2 | Get Threads of a Forum | authorized user | /forum/{forumId}/threads | GET | order, limit, offset |
| PaginatedThreads |
| 3 | Create a Thread | authorized user | /thread | POST |
| CreateThread | Thread |
| 4 | Get a Thread by its ID | authorized user | /thread/{threadId} | GET |
| Thread |
| 5 | Create a Reply | authorized user | /reply | POST |
| CreateReply | Reply | Thread’s Author | ||
| 6 | Get a Reply by its ID | authorized user | /reply/{replyId} | GET |
| Reply |
| 7 |
| Remove a Thread |
| Moderator | /thread/{threadId} |
| DELETE |
| 8 | Remove a Reply |
| Moderator | /reply/{replyId} |
| DELETE |
| 9 | Get Replies for a Thread |
| authorized user | /thread/{threadId}/ |
| replies |
| GET | order, limit, offset | PaginatedReplies | ||
| 10 | Update a Thread’s Message | Author | /thread/{threadId}/ |
| message | PUT |
| String |
| 11 | Update a Reply’s Message | Author | /reply/{replyId}/message | PUT | String | |||
| 12 | Update a Thread's title | Author | /thread/{threadId}/title | PUT | String | |||
| 13 | Restore a deleted thread | Moderator | /thread/{threadId}/restore |
| PUT |
| 14 | Retrieve a paginated list of moderator for a given forum | authorized user | / |
| forum/{ |
| forumId}/ |
| moderators | GET |
| limit, offset |
| PaginatedModerators |
Future Potential Extensions
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Search
Look for all discussions about an entity - DONE
Search for content
Tag / Category
Notification
Moderator gets notification when new thread is created - DONE
Author gets notification when someone responds to their post - DONE
Following - DONE
Vote (up and down) on responses
Flag a thread/ response as inappropriate
Mark a thread as helpful
Be able to see that there are discussions on a file / table* - DONE
Be able to link to a thread - DONE
- Moderator would be able to close a thread and link to another thread