On 28 May 2001 12:35:51 +0200, Luca Manini wrote:

Hi,

what options are there for putting contents into Zope. Let's say I want to use Zope to build an intranet where not specially skilled people (at least not "html" skilled people) has to author most of the site contents. Which approaches can I try?

Options that came to mind are:

1) make "contributions" be higly structured (I mean to have many properties and less "free" text) so that I can produce the output like a DB report.

2) try to teach them some StructuredText.

3) try to have them use some other editor to produce "simple" html and import it into Zope.

4) have them put almost plain text and set up some sort to publishing work flow where the plain text get reviewed and edited in steps by different skilled people up to the "final" form?

5) Any experience, other ideas?

TIA, Luca.

Install CMF (http://cmf.zope.org ) and then you can do any/all of these. Structured Text Structured text is rather *simple* to learn, at keast for probably 90%, or more, of the things these people would theoritically be doing. Workflow This is one of the key aspects of the CMF, and can provide you with a simple means to implement the 4th option you list. The author would: o Log in to the site o Add a Document (by following the links) o Submit for review At this point, a reviewer would look at it, make any structural changes needed, and approve or reject it. That's how I'd do it. One of these days I'll probably make a WYSIWYG StructuredText editor .. but that is another subject. This-reply-typed-in-StructuredText-ly y'rs Bill