[Zope-PTK] Different types of member

Kevin Dangoor kid@kendermedia.com
Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:02:16 -0400


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From: "kamon ayeva" <kayeva@hotmail.com>
To: <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:22 PM
Subject: [Zope-PTK] Different types of member


> I am trying to develop a portal product which needs to allow 2 types of
> members to register themselves, and one type of members can create content
> for the other type of members, and vice-versa. Let's say for example,
Buyers
> & Vendors (in an e-business system).
> I would like to know if there is an optimal way of designing such a
portal,
> other than creating two different portal objects. I started with a portal
in
> which I set two different MemberFolder classes, but this seems a bit
complex
> to manage.
> Any guidance would be appreciated.

I don't think anyone responded to this. You should be able to do what you
want just by creating the appropriate roles (you could even call them Buyers
and Vendors), and then assigning permissions to match. Having separate
batches of members is probably an inconvenient way to do it.

Kevin