cp.hennessy@openapp.biz wrote:
1. User has a folder on his Linux/Windows file system with one or more content types (images, OO docs,Word docs, etc.)
2. User does a drag and drop to a WebDAV folder which appears to the client to be just another folder on the disk.
3. The webDav server automatically determines the content type and creates it in the selected target folder using the appropriate factory when it receives the file, and uses the "file" factory if it can't automatically determine the file type...
Use Webdrive (http://www.webdrive.com/) to connect your Zope to the Desktop of the users via Webdav and you'll be happy...
There are two problems with this : 1) it only works on Windows;
For Linux exists many solutions... KDE delivers this out of the box, other projects can use WebDavFS (or something called similar) to mount a Webdav-Folder to the filesystem. -mj