Hi all, I'm looking for a good base to build a portal system and wonder if Zope is it. Basic requirements are... - my.yahoo style home page feature without all the news feed stuff, just our own widgets in portlets. - portlets can be added/removed by user. - user accounts with roles limiting which portlets may be added. - skinnable I've looked over some of the docs for Zope and CMF. What I haven't seen yet is a description of how to set up an editable home page with portlets. Is Zope what I'm looking for? Thanks!, boz
Hi! You can do things like that easily with Zope, e.g. using a few simple "ZClasses". Look at the Kontentor demo at www.iuveno.de to see an example of a dynamically generated page that can be edited over the web. We have built a couple of prototypes for a Portal system like the one you describe, but there has been no real demand to finish them up as a product yet. Some commitment in cash or time could help with that ;-) Joachim
I'm looking for a good base to build a portal system and wonder if Zope is it. Basic requirements are... - my.yahoo style home page feature without all the news feed stuff, just our own widgets in portlets. - portlets can be added/removed by user. - user accounts with roles limiting which portlets may be added. - skinnable
I've looked over some of the docs for Zope and CMF. What I haven't seen yet is a description of how to set up an editable home page with portlets. Is Zope what I'm looking for?
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 03:40 AM, Joachim Werner wrote:
Look at the Kontentor demo at www.iuveno.de to see an example of a dynamically generated page that can be edited over the web.
We have built a couple of prototypes for a Portal system like the one you describe, but there has been no real demand to finish them up as a product yet.
Hmmm. Sorry if I missed thepoint but Kontentor seems to give far more control to the user than what I'm after. Of course, being logged in as admin, that's to be expected. :-) I just want users to be able to add widgets from a defined set and arrange them on a home page. Is Zope overkill for this? Any other examples out there? ,boz ps: Wish I could help 'ya out with that cash flow ;-)
Hmmm. Sorry if I missed thepoint but Kontentor seems to give far more control to the user than what I'm after. Of course, being logged in as admin, that's to be expected. :-)
That's all configurable. If you need to choose from preconfigured bits of code instead of the rather free-form stuff Kontentor offers, you can just limit the user's possibilities to use only those widgets.
I just want users to be able to add widgets from a defined set and arrange them on a home page. Is Zope overkill for this?
I don't think Zope is overkill for you. But of course the project you are thinking of is not completely unambitious. So there IS some complexity involved. But you'd have much more complexity to handle if you did it all from scratch ... Joachim
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