Thread:Feedback/ Feature request Typed references/85.178.203.145

That would be but one of the many possible applications, achieved by registering a reference type "applicable group/home topic", and then including a list of the desired reference(s). The user would usually just see a selection dialog/subform with which to pick the (hopefully!) appropriate targets. I had this idea when I noted that I sometimes wanted to reply to two or three posts at once. This usually happened in busy discussions, when several authors commented on a post of mine, and some of these replies were closely related, sometimes even practically identical. ;) The basic problem is that threaded discussions are generally viewed only in linear or tree mode, while extensive discussions usually fit neither, but rather form some directed acyclic graph. Implementing this would be as simple as registering a reference type "follows up to (multiple)" and adding references of that type. You could of course define specific fields and provide some suitable semantics, but why the hassle, when typed references give you limitless opt-in extensibility for so little effort? ;)