Hey,

I was over at ipsbeyond and see they are using IP.Nexus - what caught my eye was the "Links System" - was this made with IP.Nexus?...or is it a version of bfarbers links system?

e.g. Does Nexus give you the ability to Rate Articles with a standard installation or is it a custom module?

Directory Example

IPS Beyond Rating Links Example Click Here

As that would be excellent especially if you can add comments aswell.

Hope you can help.

The links system is built using the stock article system, you could recreate it exactly as we have it with no modifications. The ratings system is included, you can enable it on a per group and then category basis. A comment system is also included, the permissions work the same way as they do with ratings.

The links system gives you some taste of what you can do with the article system. With it's complex permissions possibilities and a custom template set, you can really use it for just about anything. As Josh said, the links system on the resource site is not modified from default at all

I tell you what guys, that sounds perfect to me.

Thanks very much for your great responses, I have an IPS forum and having Nexus working alongside it so members can only rate would be ideal. I was thinking of using part of the CMS as a showcase gallery with ratings etc, so it seems form what you are saying this would be possible. Great stuff.

That's really good food for thought, so I will actually take a step into using the beta sometime soon and seeing what it can do.

On a side note, as Nexus is template driven, i'm guessing I can use the article manager to have a showcase page but also have a blog/news publishing using the ratings/comments system but be differently styled?

Thanks.

You can have as many instances of the articles system as you like. Each instance can be tied to a style set independent of the others, and each instance supports it's own separate plugins. For instance, on the resources site the Wiki is one instance of the articles system, our front page news is another, and the links section is yet another instance. All of them are stock (no modifications), though the links instance does have a custom plugin to generate the proper "dropdown" menu and record the "hits" to outbound links.

Each instance can use it's own template set, and further to that by creating custom views you can use different templates within an existing template set. The wiki page uses the default template set and templates. The news uses the default template set, but uses a custom view and thus uses custom templates within that set (configurable). The links instance uses a separate template set so that we could customize the look of the links section better.

We hope that once Nexus is released, people will write and share plugins like they do with IPB modifications. There's lots and lots of possibilities