----- Original Message ----- From: Wade Leftwich <wade@lightlink.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 8:44 AM Subject: [Zope] one 'document' in many 'folders'
The object of the game is to pull fresh articles from a Reuters server every two hours and put them in a bin. A human editor goes through the bin, culls and sorts the articles, edits where appropriate.
One article may appear in more than one section of the site. For example, an article titled "Zope Is Cool" might appear in the Python, Web Development, and Open Source sections. Each section has its own contents page.
This application sounds similar to stuff that I (and others on this list are trying to accomplish).
This is where I get confused. My Perl application simply used the filesystem as a database, and generated three separate static copies of "Zope Is Cool", placing one in each of three directories: /python, /web_development, and /open_source. I suspect there are much better ways to do it in Zope, but how do I organize things?
My immediate term solution is to make multiple copies of the article in the ZDB. I agree that this is suboptimal. Paul@DC has mentioned that they are working on a "Catalog" feature that they would like to integrate with Zope. This feature will be *perfect* for this application (and many others). Unfortunately, I don't think this is on the very near term radar scope. Depending on how far out Catalog is, and when I manage to finish off the basic necessities for my sites, I was thinking of delving into Zope's btree stuff and trying to put together some kind of search interface. Right now, though, I've still got a bunch of work to do before I get to that point. Kevin