Linear Output - Marker tags?

[JayMan]

Omar,

This sounds awesome feature. I get the idea and know how to add the string values, but the explanation about a "Good marker" is leaving me scratching my noggin.

What do you mean by a "good marker?  Limit is self-explanatory, but what does the value for "marker" actually do

If you read the paragraph starting with Marker from the Readme.txt you'll understand why it's clear as mud. Hopefully you can answer it here and then rewrite the Readme


Readme.txt from Install.zip

Marker - this is the "tag" of a session. A good marker is a domain or a blog name or whatever you want to be accounted. The articles are given considering the marker value. For example if you set a marker=domain.com and will keep reloading the domain.com will receive the next article each time. But if you will make a marker marker=domain2.com the domain2 will start getting articles from the start.

[Omar]

hi, it's kirill. i'm on omar's login cause i don't have my own ))

as about the marker. let me try explain this way: say you have 10 articles in a project. in the linear mode cs will return them consequently - one by one, each time the least used. but what if you have 5 installs of BS where you want to use same articles, same in each? in a simple way you request one article from install 1. the first article will be returned. than you request article from install 2. but the first article was already returned thus install 2 gets second article. but what if you want to have all articles in all installs? here markers come. a marker is a "copy" of the project. each marker has own counters. so if you request for the first install of BS you set marker=domain1.com and for all the rest you set own markers. in this way cs will have own counters for EACH marker. but all of them share the same project. if this is not clear i will try to draw some example )

[JayMan]

Very clear and thank you.

The magic word for understanding that is missing in the install Readme.txt is

Counters

each marker has its own counters

Cheers,
Jan