Creating an intranet can mean just about anything, but a CMF would be a good start if you need: - A membership management system (Member can join and have an online workspace) - A content management system (content contributed by members) - Content metadata management (like titles, descriptions, author info, etc) - Workflow (like content review and publication rules) - Skins (multiple ways to format/look at the same content) - Cataloging (text searching and field searching) - Topics (Collections of content arranged in categories) - Discussion (Threaded discussion about content) All of these things can be built without the CMF, but it gives you a huge head start, especially if you need most of the above in your site. Security is handled very well in the base Zope. And of course all of the base Zope functionality is available in the CMF. I would start by reading an intro book such as "The Book of Zope" or "The Zope Book". The latter is available entirely online. There are other books that also cover parts of the CMF. Anyone serious about developing in Zope should also learn Python, which, if you've programmed in any other language before can be done quite quickly. Its also a great language for beginner programmers. Knowing Python gives you a tremendous advantage in understanding Zope and the CMF (because you can read tracebacks and the source code and write Python scripts, external methods and products). Good Luck! -Casey On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 03:30, Santagostino Pretina, Luca wrote:

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Hi list, I am very new to Zope and I have been observing the list for quite some time and I really like it: thanks for it to everyone! it rocks! now the question: I have been given a task to solve: create an Intranet with it, with different permissions, differente sections and different products in it, (Articles, news_items, documents, forum, calendar to name a few). Which is the best way to do this? I have been told cmf_site would be a good solution, or maybe a catalog too...but I am note sure and I seek for help. anyone can help? thanks a lot Luca

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