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Greetings,
I have been researching the MySite module as a way to add content to my personal site. This part works great. The problem is that I can only add content such as most recent posts, most recent blogs, posts from a specific user, etc.. What about adding specific articles. I thought about the notion of combining somehow the Book module so that a user first adds an article to their book and then the user's mysite settings would add any of those book pages to their own Mysite. Problem is that the Book module simply changes the pointer to the article. So if the user A has their own book and has article A and user B wants article A in his/ her book it moves the piinter so that article A is no longer in user A's book. I need it to make a copy for each Book, then I could use MySite as it is. If not, then I need somehow to get MySite to add specific content by somehow searching for it. Does anyone have any suggestions how I might begin tackling this? Should I simply look at customizing the MySite module?
Don't "customize," extend
If the module doesn't do what you need, you can use the API to extend it.
http://therickards.com/api
The Book module is already supported. It simply lets you select a book and shows the X most recent posts from that book. Of course if someone moves a post from book W to book Y, you will lose track of it.
What you probably want is Comment support, which would:
1) Let users select posts from a list (with search).
2) Display a link to the post and a list of the X most recent comments.
Comment module is one of the few core features that is not supported. This seems like a good use case.
You should file a feature request here: http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/mysite
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agentrickard