I've been following Zope for a couple of months now, and in the last week or so I've started using it seriously for building a web site for my wife's business. After creating quite a few folders and DTML documents, I'd like to find a way to streamline the management interface.

My first thought was to reorganize some of the management pages, but I'm having some trouble trying to figure out where they are defined (e.g. manage_workspace) and how to go about changing them once I find them. Acquisition is really cool, but it can make tracking things down somewhat problematic at times. Anyone got any pointers about where I should be looking?

I also saw the article John Udell(?) wrote at Byte.com about Zope and some of the forum discussion there that followed. One forum article mentioned that Web-DAV could be used with IE5 by opening Zope as a Web Folder. This sounded intriguing, so I tried it (after having to completely re-install IE5 to get Web Folder support to work right :-(.

However, I must be missing the point, or have the wrong idea about what it will allow me to do. If I open 'http://MyZopeSite:8080/' I get a nice file folder view of my Zope site. But when I try to drag a DTML document to an editor, I get an error dialog saying 'An error occurred copying some or all of the selected files'. If I try to open 'http://MyZopeSite:8080/manage' I get an error saying it can't open the page as a Web Folder. What am I doing wrong? And when it works right, what should I be able to do? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

BTW, I found the mini-HOWTO's on DTML Document/Method differences and Namespace management to be very helpful. They cleared up several points that had been pretty murky in my understanding of Zope. Hopefully these will be added to the main documentation at some point.

Dave Morrill