How do _you_ contribute articles to a Zope intranet?
Hi, Since I now have a basic intranet running with Zope, I'm currently creating/editing articles but copy/pasting the HTML code into Namo's WYSIWYG HTML Webeditor, but it's clumsy, and I must remember to add the <dtml-var standard_html_header> and <dtml-var standard_html_footer> in each new articles. Keeping those two tools open and switching back and forth is a drag, and unusable by non-techies. Since Zope lets users work with WebDAV, is there a project for a WYSIWYG tool to replace the ZMI so that users could contribute to a site through a single, dedicated tool? Don't get me wrong, I think the ZMI is usable by people like us, but I'm thinking of tools for non-savy users. Thx EvH.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:01:53PM +0200, EvH wrote:
Hi,
Since I now have a basic intranet running with Zope, I'm currently creating/editing articles but copy/pasting the HTML code into Namo's WYSIWYG HTML Webeditor, but it's clumsy, and I must remember to add the <dtml-var standard_html_header> and <dtml-var standard_html_footer> in each new articles. Keeping those two tools open and switching back and forth is a drag, and unusable by non-techies.
Try installing the ExternalEditor product. Allows you to open zope documents with the editor of your choice, even different editors for different doc types. You just create a new doc as usual in the zope management interface, then click on its little "pencil" icon, and it pops up your editor. Save the file, and it goes into zope. Very very nice. You do have to install client software on every computer where you want to use it, but it's not hard to do. http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
Hi,
Since I now have a basic intranet running with Zope, I'm currently creating/editing articles but copy/pasting the HTML code into Namo's WYSIWYG HTML Webeditor, but it's clumsy, and I must remember to add the <dtml-var standard_html_header> and <dtml-var standard_html_footer> in each new articles. Keeping those two tools open and switching back and forth is a drag, and unusable by non-techies.
I have customized IEDocument (http://www.zope.org/Members/arvid/IEDocument), which is based on the Zope product (http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/HTMLDocument). I also used parts of the IEEditor, http://vsbabu.org/webdev/zopedev/ieeditor.html for getting HTML-tables working. 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) For a list of non-TTW editors for Zope have a look at: http://zopezen.org/Editors. I think ExternalEdit is not suitable for letting editors create content, because it requires the program to be installed on the client. I'll try it for my next Zope installation (not working with Zope a lot anymore). Regards, Pieter
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