Here's my 5 minute take on this, and I don't consider myself very knowledgeable at the moment, so... 0. Yes, zope and the cmf would be very appropriate for this. 1. After building an Intranet with cmf1.1, I would definitely recommend plone - much easier out of the box experience. 2. Don't allow anonymous to join the portal (security tab from the root of your portal) 3. I'm not terribly sure how to do agentA.propertyportal.com, but search the archives for sub portals, or have something like apache rewrite rules point agentA.propertyportal.com to a page that shows only agentA items. Something like agentA.propertyportal.com -> index_html?agent=agentA. index_html would have a method(s) to use the zcatalog, showing only agentA properties. 4a. Modify the image object to store information about a property (goto portal_types, create a new type based on image, rename the existing properties, create new view and edit methods). May also use the CMFPhoto product - I haven't used it before, just the photo product, which I like. It allows for image resizing, so the agents could upload any sized image, and have the image displayed to users in a consistent size. 4b. Or create a new product that has more properties (as in zope properties, not land) than the default image type provides. CMFPhoto may support this without creating a product - the Photo product does. Python is pretty easy, it is the integration with zope that is sometimes confusing (for me anyway). Definitely read the zope developers guide and the zope book before you do much else. Regarding the (lack of) documentation, there is a wide variety of cmf docs out there, just mostly in the mailing lists, so it is disorganized. But fortunately the list can point you in the right direction, as you have already seen... Scott -----Original Message----- From: Brian [mailto:newbie@konzoo.com] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:53 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Web application for Property company Hi, I'm thinking of building web application for a property company. This property company has staffs who works as agent for the company. The company is thinking to have a portal which can do following: -The agents can customize his/her own page -> agentA.propertyPortal.com or agentB.propertyPortal.com -The agents can post pictures of his/her properties in his working directory/page. Basically each agent has an independent portal solution which include search capabilities. -But if the user logon to the main portal which is www.propertyPortala.com the user can search entire properties of the whole agents. My questions: -If I use Zope, shall I use CMF? -Would it be enough to build this type of application only knowing: DTML and Python? Can someone judge how long this will take? Consider: -I'm a Java programmer and don't know much about Python -I know DTML and basic Zope. thanks, Brian Service provided by MaGlobe Prepaid Worldwide Internet Access (visit www.MaGlobe.com) _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) The information contained in this email message may be privileged and is confidential information intended only for the use of the recipient or any employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient. Any unauthorized use, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and all attachments from your electronic files.