Hi all - I'm very new to Zope(i.e. literally only hours) and like what I see so far but I'm still unsure if Zope(and add-on products thereto) is the solution I'm looking for. Specifically, I am a CIO of a franchise organization that has a network of 750 owner-operated locations around the US and Canada and what I want to be able to do is to give our owners the ability to create/update/manage their owner one page 'home page' which will 'hang off' our public site. The pages for all locations need to be within a standard template and we should be able to determine what our owner-operators can update/add on their pages. Also, some of the page content will need to be controlled dynamically by data within our existing franchise database(MSSQL). This dynamic data should not be able to be updated via the Zope interface. Above all, creating/updating the pages should be extremely(and I stress extremely) simplistic. Otherwise our users will not create/maintain their site. All this being said, is Zope my answer? Is a combination of Zope and Plone my answer? Zope and a combination of some other product(s)? Am I way off here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated before I go digging into the product myself. Regards, Steve Mueller
It works for infinity (viacom). I believe (in principle, and probably much more $$$) that they're doing something similar. http://www.zope.com/CaseStudies/ViacomCaseStudy/ and http://www.zope.com/CaseStudies in general. Get the shovel out :) good luck... Bobb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Mueller" <Steve.Mueller@frontieradjusters.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:23 PM Subject: [Zope] is zope right for me? Hi all - I'm very new to Zope(i.e. literally only hours) and like what I see so far but I'm still unsure if Zope(and add-on products thereto) is the solution I'm looking for. Specifically, I am a CIO of a franchise organization that has a network of 750 owner-operated locations around the US and Canada and what I want to be able to do is to give our owners the ability to create/update/manage their owner one page 'home page' which will 'hang off' our public site. The pages for all locations need to be within a standard template and we should be able to determine what our owner-operators can update/add on their pages. Also, some of the page content will need to be controlled dynamically by data within our existing franchise database(MSSQL). This dynamic data should not be able to be updated via the Zope interface. Above all, creating/updating the pages should be extremely(and I stress extremely) simplistic. Otherwise our users will not create/maintain their site. All this being said, is Zope my answer? Is a combination of Zope and Plone my answer? Zope and a combination of some other product(s)? Am I way off here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated before I go digging into the product myself. Regards, Steve Mueller _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
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locations around the US and Canada and what I want to be able to do is to give our owners the ability to create/update/manage their owner one page 'home page' which will 'hang off' our public site. The pages for all locations need to be within a standard template and we should be able to determine what our owner-operators can update/add on their pages.
Sounds simple enough, and exactly what Zope is good at...
Also, some of the page content will need to be controlled dynamically by data within our existing franchise database(MSSQL).
A couple of ZSQL methods and an mxODBC database adapter should do it :-)
interface. Above all, creating/updating the pages should be extremely(and I stress extremely) simplistic.
Hehe, well, if you're looking for help, you may find my company's name relevent...
will not create/maintain their site. All this being said, is Zope my answer?
Yes.
Is a combination of Zope and Plone my answer?
I wouldn't recommend it for something this simple, particularly if your website takes a lot of hits. What kind of volume are you anticipating?
Zope and a combination of some other product(s)?
Yep, although mxODBC is the only extra one you'll need to add. Looks like you're well on course... cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
Steve Mueller wrote:
Above all, creating/updating the pages should be extremely(and I stress extremely) simplistic. Otherwise our users will not create/maintain their site.
Hi Steve - you might want to consider the Zwiki product; it's targeted at simple editing, including wysiwyg editing. See eg http://zwiki.org/EpozTest . Regards
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