Future: Structured Dialogs

This page describes one of several future ideas for HyperNews.

Many people would like to structure dialogs and the contents of responses. HyperNews provides the general case with no restrictions, but it would be useful to provide a framework for various customizable constraints.

The contents of a response could have a prespecified structure in the form of named fields that the author fills in with arbitrary text, or there might be lists of values that the author can select from. A set of fields and their possible values defines a type, and subtypes of that would inherit the parent types fields. Each type could restrict the set of possible response types allowed, or it could restrict whether any responses are allowed.

For example, a set of fields that might be useful for specification of tasks could be:

Description:
Priority:
Dependencies:
Comments:

And responses to a particular task specification could have the following fields:

Proposed Solution:
Projected Completion Date:
Comments:

Related to customizable constraints, it may be useful to customize the display and interaction capabilities of HyperNews, such as changing "Add a Response" to "Pose a Question".

When a new base article is created, the constraints and display customizations for the tree of responses under that article can be specified.

Daniel LaLiberte (liberte@hypernews.org)

Last modified: Tue May 2 11:57:29 CDT 1995

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