I am getting ready to build an Organizational Chart 'product' within Zope. Since I still consider myself somewhat of a newbie I'm actually trying to plan this thing before I dive into building it (I know that is a scary thought ... trust me, I usually just dive right into things without thinking ... so I am in new territory here <g>) Since several of you have MUCH more experience with Zope I'd like to throw out some ideas with the hope that those of you who have mastered the Zen of Zope can share some of your wisdom. Of course if I do manage to make something of this it'll show up on the Zope site. THE STRUCTURE I am planning on a structure similar to the following /OrgChart - - - - /DeptHead1 - - - /Manager1 - - - /surf1 /peon2 /slave3 /Manager2 - - - /Moe /Curly /Larry etc, etc, etc I do not see any difficulty with being able to display the charts using the tree functionality. I'm pretty comfortable here. I would like to be able to have DeptHeads and managers be able to add/delete/edit any objects below them. I am assuming that this will be handled fine through local roles. Does anyone see a problem with this? This one has me stumped and am hoping that it is just brain fart. If I have user (employee) log on at the root, but would like for them to be able to edit/manage their own editable information... given the structure above, how do I find their resource. I'm looking for something similar to what the Zope site has for editing /Member/username, however that is a flat structure. I understand how to find things UP a tree structure, but how would I find something DOWN the structure. Do I have to make this thing ZCatalog aware, or can I just use the standard ZCatalog indexing? I think I am making this too difficult, but am stumped. If there is employee information which can be edited, would it make sense to have this information stored as properties to 'username' or should I create separate standard DTMLDocuments which can be edited by the user? I'm going to want to hide even the 'Zope' interface from these users as much as possible. If a user wants to build a 'homepage' off their directory using a 'web design tool'. Is there a way to create a 'virtual' or 'aliased' directory structure based on userid? Right now, the current FTP server that I am using lets me alias an n-deep directory structure and map to a single root level directory based on userid. It's pretty cool. I think I understand everything else that I need. Thanks in advance for your wisdom ....
I am getting ready to build an Organizational Chart 'product' within Zope.
Where does this information reside now? That would dictate what approach you take. I once did something similar for a company where the data resided in an ldap db, but it was far too slow to recursively query in real time so I had to dump it to a relation db every night which I could query quickly. Anyway, once a person logs on and you know their unique identifier, you should be able to query the datasource to see where they sit in the hierarchy when trying to edit another user. Just a thought.
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 rgines@purina.com wrote:
If a user wants to build a 'homepage' off their directory using a 'web design tool'. Is there a way to create a 'virtual' or 'aliased' directory structure based on userid? Right now, the current FTP server that I am using lets me alias an n-deep directory structure and map to a single root level directory based on userid. It's pretty cool.
Which FTP server are you using that has this capability. Sounds intriguing... -Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson@visi.com | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/
Oops, looks like I misread the question in my last reply. In the case your users don't want to manage the site using the Zope management interface or an interface that you create via HTTP (and instead want to add and remove objects via FTP or WebDAV), what you're asking for is a little more tricky. Actually, I'm at a loss to come up with a solution using Zope in its current form that allows a user to be redirected to a specific aliased ("chrooted"? "chsubfoldered"?) home directory using FTP or WebDAV based on his/her login credentials. It's just not part of the package. As Paul Everitt is fond of saying, patches are accepted :-).
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 rgines@purina.com wrote:
If a user wants to build a 'homepage' off their directory using a 'web design tool'. Is there a way to create a 'virtual' or 'aliased' directory structure based on userid? Right now, the current FTP server that I am using lets me alias an n-deep directory structure and map to a single root level directory based on userid. It's pretty cool.
-- Chris McDonough Digital Creations, Inc. Zope - http://www.zope.org
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