[Developers] Editing longer text fields.

[Arthur van Hoff]

Hi Faye,

The summary is a non-html description of a broadcast that we can display
in our environment (which does not support html). We have to copy it
into the article so that it is indexed for search. 

We've asked if it was possible to add an option to the schema which
flags the summary for indexing. That way we would not have to put a copy
in the article.

Using a separate article of type text/plain is possible, but it adds a
lot of complexity since we can't simply request the content using a MQL
query.

Have fun,

    Arthur van Hoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:developers-
> bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Li
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:26 PM
> To: For discussions about MQL,Freebase API and apps built on Freebase
> Subject: Re: [Developers] Editing longer text fields.
> 
> Hi Arthur,
> 
> A little off-topic as I'm trying to understand your data model and
> see
> if there's a better way to support that. At least for this topic, I
> see
> that the content of the Summary (/type/text) is identical to that of
> the
> Description (/common/topic/article). So my questions are:
> 
> 1) What's the purpose of the Summary property, and how is it
> different
> from that of the topic article, if at all?
> 2) If it tends to contain sentences instead of short phrases, would
> it
> serve your purpose better to set the expected type as
> /common/topic/article if that can be handled well by the Freebase
> app?
> 
> Dan,
> I recall that the idea of allowing/supporting multiple articles on a
> topic came up last year. Was a definitive decision made on that?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Faye
> 
> 
> Dan Milbrath wrote:
> > agreed. we'll try to address this in the next release or two.
> > thanks.
> >
> > - Dan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arthur van Hoff" <AVH at zing.net>
> > To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on
> Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:27:33 PM (GMT-0800)
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