Yes, I've tinkered with CMF, shows much promise. I had trouble though, finding documentation to help me set it up. Specifically, I couldn't figure out how to create a consistent home page for the site that all users see.
From there they can go to their own sites. And in this case, Even the sites for each project would look very similar, but with different content. They would not be customizable by the visitors.What is the best source for docs?
-mjm -----Original Message----- From: Ausum [mailto:augusto@artlover.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:11 PM To: zope@zope.org; montagne@BOORA.com Subject: Re: [Zope] Project FTP Site You have in hands a nice opportunity to start using CMF, like it is right now, out of the box. CMF is a portal framework that allows their users to upload every content they want to a folder of their own, and publish what they want; and by having the Autocad drawings exposed through http and not ftp, your users will have the chance to review them online, using the browser plugin. All the dwgs (as any other content type) will have metadata to help their finding, and also all of them will be discussable, if you want it, and the discussion items will be searchable as well. (as any picture, document, news, etc, is) Doesn't it sound good enough? :) There's an issue if you don't want to use the default login manager/users base. But that's something you'll work out with the help of the list. Ausum "Montagne, Michael" wrote:
Here is my problem: I need to create a project site for an archiectural office. The primary purpose is File Transfer. Each firm participating in the project will
have
a folder to upload files to. They may also download from the other folders, but not upload. The files are primarily AutoCad drawings. There also needs to be the capability to send emails to groups of people notifying them of file transfers. These people are stored currently in an access database. Yes, my platform is winNT. There are other functions i promised to include but those are the main ones. Unfortunately, I don't even know where to begin. I know that zope has an FTP server so I chimed in "Of course we can do that, we'll use zope!!" I need some suggestions.
-mjm
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