Are you familiar with iTunes? If so, you will be quite familiar with what I am trying to achieve. Zope is by nature very hierarchical. I want to get away from the hierarchies to the point where you can navigate documents based on their properties only. Change the properties and the document will appear elsewhere - maybe even several places, depending on how you define the routes by which you navigate. In iTunes a route might look like Genre > Artist > Album, or it might just be Artist > Album. Wherever you are in your navigation, there is always a list of documents at your fingertips. It is very hands-on and very quick. In document management world there is the potential for many more variations on this theme. I believe we will be frequently adding and indexing new document types and properties - and this will be a large part of the functionality of the application, not a backend administrative task. Whatever database we use will have to be very nimble. Nathaniel Shane Landrum <srl@boston.com> wrote on 01/23/2004 05:18:24 PM:
Could you elaborate on what you're doing and how you're planning to use a relational database for item catalogging?