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[Andrea Corbellini <corbellini.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>]

You could also put the questions IDs (which are immutable) into your own
database and create the associations question<->system inside your db.
I think this would be the best and safer solution.

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 11:43 -0500, Marc Tardif wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The Ubuntu Friendly website [1] would like to enable people to ask
> questions about systems and we would like to use Launchpad
> Answers. The typical use case would look like:
> 
> 1. User finds system on Ubuntu Friendly;
> 2. User creates a question about the system;
> 3. Other users can see the question and answers for the system.
> 
> The problem is with the third step: how can we get the list of questions
> that were created for a given system? We thought about creating a
> title for the question when redirecting to Launchpad that could then be
> searched easily, but the user can then decide to change the title. We
> also thought about first creating a bug with a tag before creating the
> question, but that seems rather circumvoluted and not sure whether it
> would even work.
> 
> So, what would be a reasonable solution to cover the above use case?
> 
> 1. http://friendly.ubuntu.com
>