-----Original Message----- From: Loren Stafford [mailto:lstafford@morphics.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:49 To: Mark Langkau Subject: RE: [Zope] Using Zope for Document Collaboration Did you see these recently announced products: http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/MSWordMunger Another observation: Unless the client's Word files use Heading styles, most Word to HTML converters won't produce HTML with <hn> tags (where n is a digit). But maybe you have a smarter converter. -- Loren

-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Mark Langkau Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:32 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Using Zope for Document Collaboration

Hi,

Forgive me if this isn't the correct list for this question. I need some design help - and suggestions of tools to use would be great. I'll take further discussions of "design" issues off line, and stick to specific Zope/tool questions here.

Quick Summary:

I need to take an incoming MS-Word file and break it up into sections, and post them on our Zope intranet for various employees to edit and contribute to. When completed, the sections need to be rolled back up into a single file that can be converted back to MS-Word. Users will not have access to the Zope Management Interface.

Details:

We have several people in multiple locations that need to edit different parts of the same document - anytime - online. My first thought is ZWiki, but I'm not sure if other options (if any) are better. (I'm a wiki newbie).

We get several Request For Proposal (RFP) docs that require several departments to contribute information and answer questions. I'd like to convert the client's original file (MS-Word) into something that Zope can publish and allow edits. The users in our departments will not have access to the Zope Management Interface, and the goal is to use just a browser to call up an RFP and answer questions in sections pertaining to their own department. Anyone working on the RFP can see the entire document (no dept. restrictions).

The final format back to the client is usually very specific, and again in MS-Word format, so I'm not looking to produce a "final" presentation document directly from the Zope site. However, we will need to "roll-up" all of the parts of the RFP back into a single doc for manual reformatting as required by the client.

If I save the Word doc into html format, can I convert that to Structured Text and paste that into Wiki pages? Does anyone have a script that could automate this - breaking sections (based on html heading tags perhaps) into separate wiki pages? (Or even just to convert html to stx?) I'm thinking that breaking the RFP up into separate pages may minimize the chance for 2 people to save changes to the same page at the same time - or lock one page and not save all day, etc. (It'll still happen, but perhaps not as often ;-)

Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks, Mark

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