A sidestep about the IEDocument installation problems:

Thx much for the tip, but after installing the directory tree under Products/ and restarting Zope, I do see a new product called "IEDocument (Installed product IEDocument (IEDocument 0.0-st)) ", but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do next when Arvid Patyupin says "Import Standard.zexp into Zope Products folder. Create a new StandardSite instance and create IEDocument and IEFolder inside it" (still a Zope newbie...). Hmm, I didn't use the Standard site product at all. Just install the IEDocument product and you should be able to add an "IEDocument" from the pulldownbox in the ZMI. I remember having problems with the .zexp as well. I can't test anything at the moment unfortuately.

More on the perfect Zope editing environment:

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I think making a good TTW (throug the web) WYSIWYG editing tool for HTML-documents in Zope would make it easy for any non-techie user to contribute to a website. Unfortuately I didn't find any good TTW WYSIWYG Editor widgets (there is a comprehensive list at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/ttw.html) Personally, I think Notes has it right, especially now that web services can be accessed through XML-RPC or even SOAP. The web browser is really a poor tool to edit content, and should be replaced by a dedicated application instead. There's got to a be way to develop a simple, one-EXE application to access Zope sites through XML-RPC. All the companies at which I worked struggled with a way to let users publish content to the intranet, to the point where even software companies didn't have any intranet (just a shared hard-drive which people would populate with - horror - .DOC, .PPT, and .XLS). If someone comes up with a standard, and simpler alternative to Lotus Notes to build knowledge databases, it'd be a killer app. I remember some discussion on the ZFC (Zope Fat Client) a while ago, but I can't find any recent info about it. I found some interesting stuff at: http://collector.zope.org/Zope3-dev/31 "Paul Everitt and I (Stephan Richter) agree that Zope 3 has to ship at least with one client that is a little bit more than just HTML" Looks like Zope3 has some of that...

In the meantime I might start on wrapping up my patches into a Zope product (I'll wait for 2.6 to be released, before starting playing with Zope again). Regards, PieterB cc: author of IEDocument, zope@zope.org (please reply to the list!)

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PieterB EvH.