[The following is also in the Collecter under features. I'm posting this as it relates to the above messages.] My thoughts on extensions to Zope: I'm <will be> working on constructing an additional Data.fs plugin (dropover FileStorage.py) which may be of use. The idea is to store stuff on the native filesystem and put properties etc in prop.x (ie the properties for file1.txt are in prop.file1.txt). The advantage of this is that it allows ppl to have a smb connection to a shared directory hence allowing them to more easily update the files. Of course, this means that you lose the ability to undo changes. This database could be enhanced by allowing it to reconize Microsoft Office documents and store properties directly in the document itself. This means that the properties now travel with the document. The second part of this proposal is to produce a Product which allows you to "mount" a database onto a subpath. This is very similiar to importing the database except that they are kept separate. These means that toplevel stuff goes into one Data.fs and the department Data.fs contains /Department/... stuff. This way, you can have a consistent style across various webservers just by running multiple copies of Zserver. In addition, you could make toplevel.fs read-only to protect it. This Product should be able to handle different filesystems (ie the current one, the above one and others) Cheers, Anthony Pfrunder