[Erp5-dev] visited objects and selection

[bartek]

Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 16:38, bartek wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I'd like to record information about the fact that a user "visited" a
>> certain object (means he opened a web page publishing this object). The
>> purpose is to be able to display a list of objects and mark the ones he
>> hasn't seen yet.
>>
>> The solution I consider is storing the info in a dedicated per-user
>> selection, and then retrieving it for every object in a list. The
>> question is, would that be an eficient solution? I'd soon end up storing
>> hundreds of object identifiers per every user, wouldn't it hurt
>> performance? And if so, what other solution may be considered?
> 
> Clearly, it would be very heavy to record such information when you have many 
> objects and many users, thus unrealistic, if you need precise records. If you 
> can accept that information is sometimes forgotten, I think the easiest way 
> is to just use a:visited in a CSS.
> 

Sometimes forgotten, and bound to the browser, not the user. But this is 
a very interesting idea, and simple - we'll see if it is acceptable for 
the project. Thanks.

Bartek

> YO