Cameron McCloud wrote:
Hi,
I'm a big fan of Lotus Notes - we use it in our company (a development shop) for various tracking type of databases (bugs, issues, change control, feature requests...). Notes is quite easy to use and it is easy to design forms and views.
I also like Zope and Plone. While Notes is good for very structured information, it isn't great for developing portal type applications. Ideally I'd like to have the best of both worlds - structured forms and views that are easy to construct yet integrated into the Zope environment with all the things that Zope is good for.
Has anyone has tried to write a very simple Notes-like product for Zope? Is there anything out there similar? I was thinking about this yesterday and it shouldn't be difficult to design a simple forms editor/viewer and a "view" designer. Can anyone point me in the right direction for going about this?
Plone's Archetypes product does code generation based on user-defined schemas. Nuxeo's CPS has several components (notably CPSSchemas) which fill pretty much the same need, but using a different strategy (schemas stored in the ZODB). Formulator is a straight Zope product which uses a similar strategy to CPSSchemas (it pioneered the idea, in fact). Infrae's Silva is more XML-centric than the others, if "structured" maps better for you onto XML than onto "field definitions". Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@zope.com Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com