Here is my problem: I need to create a project site for an archiectural office. The primary purpose is File Transfer. Each firm participating in the project will have a folder to upload files to. They may also download from the other folders, but not upload. The files are primarily AutoCad drawings. There also needs to be the capability to send emails to groups of people notifying them of file transfers. These people are stored currently in an access database. Yes, my platform is winNT. There are other functions i promised to include but those are the main ones. Unfortunately, I don't even know where to begin. I know that zope has an FTP server so I chimed in "Of course we can do that, we'll use zope!!" I need some suggestions. -mjm
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:17:57PM -0700, Montagne, Michael wrote:
I need to create a project site for an archiectural office. The primary purpose is File Transfer. Each firm participating in the project will have a folder to upload files to. They may also download from the other folders, but not upload. The files are primarily AutoCad drawings.
If they'll primarily be uploading single files, don't even bother with FTP, just set up a form that will let them post a single file via a file upload form, similar to how Zope lets you do a file or image upload. Otherwise, stick with ftp (but you might have to do some hacks to tell Zope to store your drawings as "File" objects, not as DTML methods or similar). If there will be lots of changes to the drawings, you might want to avoid storing them in a regular ZODB, unless you need the ability to roll back to previous versions of the drawings. Using LocalFS or non-packable storage for the drawings would be more space-efficient if the files change frequently, otherwise keep them in a regular ZODB with full rollback capabilities. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mike Renfro wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:17:57PM -0700, Montagne, Michael wrote:
I need to create a project site for an archiectural office. The primary purpose is File Transfer. Each firm participating in the project will have a folder to upload files to. They may also download from the other folders, but not upload. The files are primarily AutoCad drawings.
If there will be lots of changes to the drawings, you might want to avoid storing them in a regular ZODB, unless you need the ability to roll back to previous versions of the drawings. Using LocalFS or
I was asked to create almost the same application by an architectural office one day, unfortunately this didn't happen. However I suggest you to think about saving your drawings in CVS, because AFAIK (AIDKAL - and I don't know a lot) AutoCAD can save it's drawings in a text format. This way you'd be able to save the complete history of changes to each drawing, even with comments about each change, while at the same time not wasting disk space. I hadn't the time to test it but I suppose it should work just fine. bye, Jerome Alet
I would not bet on that witout MUCH testing. I have been developing huge AutoCAD aplications for 15 years. And DXF (as the text transfer format is called) has become problematic. What I am doing now is creating an dbengine that stores files outside of zope and keeps trak of revisions. But the product is far from redy. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome Alet" <alet@unice.fr> To: "Mike Renfro" <renfro@tntech.edu> Cc: "Montagne, Michael" <montagne@BOORA.com>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Project FTP Site
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mike Renfro wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:17:57PM -0700, Montagne, Michael wrote:
I need to create a project site for an archiectural office. The primary purpose is File Transfer. Each firm participating in the project will have a folder to upload files to. They may also download from the other folders, but not upload. The files are primarily AutoCad drawings.
If there will be lots of changes to the drawings, you might want to avoid storing them in a regular ZODB, unless you need the ability to roll back to previous versions of the drawings. Using LocalFS or
I was asked to create almost the same application by an architectural office one day, unfortunately this didn't happen.
However I suggest you to think about saving your drawings in CVS, because AFAIK (AIDKAL - and I don't know a lot) AutoCAD can save it's drawings in a text format. This way you'd be able to save the complete history of changes to each drawing, even with comments about each change, while at the same time not wasting disk space.
I hadn't the time to test it but I suppose it should work just fine.
bye,
Jerome Alet
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