[Shifted to zope@zope.org] Brian, not sure if it solves any of your problems, but it sounds like I went through something similar to you recently. Check out http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/ByKey/E4A51E9501A43999 (and it's associated thread). tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian R Brinegar" <brinegar@ecn.purdue.edu> To: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:32 PM Subject: [Zope-dev] Correct Usage of Page Templates

Good Day,

I'm having trouble grasping the complete usage of Page Templates. I understand the beauty of TAL and METAL.

I have say a hundred secretaries that use WebDAV clients to create and edit content. Currently if one of them creates new content in say MS Word and drags it on to the Zope server a File object is created. What I want is to have an object with the look and feel of my standard_template created.

I can use a put factory to have it create a new page template instead of a file. But then I get a page template that does not use the look and feel of the standard template. I could even change the default template to do something more reasonable but the user must create the file/object on the server and then edit it. A file/object cannot be created on the client and dropped in place on the server.

I do not want to try to teach these people METAL or tell them anything about macros. I just want the content to drop in and fit with the look of my site.

I have found that I can create a standard_template with:

<div tal:content="structure here/data">Content</div>

in the body and then access files like index.html/standard_template and everything works great. The problem is that the users have to know to create links with /standard_template after the file.

Am I thinking about something wrong? My users don't understand HTML or Tags they know MS Word and Dreamweaver. If I tell them to edit anything in source view they scream at me.

Any ideas?

Thanks, -Brian Brinegar Web System Developer / Programmer

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