From: <rene@xs4all.nl>
Hi. I'm trying to run Zope on FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE, with little success so far. :(
What I need to know most is if Zope can support a database application with a sort of meta-definition of the database structure, so I can easily create definitions of forms (that are to be filled in by an end-user) in form-configuration files.
In those form-configuration files, field and input-restrictions should be listed for any given table/view of/to the database. After that I need an engine to parse those form-configuration files into an HTML window that actually allows editing of the database content..
In short, I need a replacement for Microsoft Access ;-)
Question: can zope do this, and if so, where is it documented?
First you need to take a look at "Formulator". It gives you easy definitions of fields and checking of input. Besides that, I'm not really sure what you want to do, except that I excpect you to want to store the input to the forms. There are so many options of doing that that I'd better let you get aquainted with formulator first. :-)
PS a reporting engine (a-la M$ Access) would come in handy very much, too.
I agree. I'm gonna need one in a couple of weeks. Anybody?