Have you tried letting them in via FTP and/or WebDAV? Or possibly constructing an upload form for new documents that makes use of a file attachment?
From a user's perspective, there is little benefit to using Zope rather than FrontPage+IIS. All they know is that they can't use the "Publish" button. They don't really care about much more than that.
I think the most compelling argument to *management* would be that you've come up with a highly flexible solution to your problem in a far lower amount of time at a far lower cost than if you had used an equivalent commercial solution. I have nothing but anecdotal evidence to back this claim based on my time as an ASP developer, however. A probably less compelling argument is that Zope is completely open-standards-based, whereas nobody really knows exactly how Front Page does its magic. That said, your job should probably be to make it bone-simple for your end users to publish stuff using Zope. This may take a bit of programming. Perhaps construct an upload application which allows them to upload an HTML file which gets parsed for identifying characteristics and gets placed in the "right" area automagically or some such thing. It's definitely possible to make it pretty easy for your users to do stuff quickly. Weaning them from the publish button isn't easy, but it can be done. - wrote:
hi all,
firstly, it's not me asking that question. it's the users. here's the situation.:
we have developed a ZClass that caters for the publishing/serving of news items. we already have contents done in quark, pagemaker and other formats. users (editorial) currently cut and paste from the source.
when the users saw that they have to cut and paste, they asked why? and they pointed to frontpage, pagemill, etc as a solution.
now, we don't want that, but how can we explain the benefit of zope over the others. i have read the zope against cf, vignette thread, but that's too high level for the users to grasp, me think.
so, really, what's the benefit of using zope instead of the others; esp for the non-techies.
p/s - maybe it's our failure in providing a better solution in exporting contents from window$ apps that cause this question. help, pointers, docs, welcomed.
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