Tim wrote:

Wondering if there would be demand for a degree of offline development of Zope sites. (in the UK all telephone calls are charged)

I can see this could be problematic. With many people updating a "live" site, copying across an offline version in entirety would wipe out other updates.

You can do some of this now, though it is undocumented. Check the mailing list archives and search for manage_importHack and manage_exportHack.

Would partial publishing of higher up folders be workable? (ie the manager uploads the folders that control the look and feel, not the sub-folders which contain authors content)

I think the Session machinery could be put to use here. A combination of a real import/export facility plus Sessions would perhaps let locking do its work and warn about collisions. --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul@digicool.com 540.371.6909