[Zope-PTK] ptk/zope newbie question- please read

[Sean Kelley]

Hi all,
I have posted a few questions to the PTK list without a single response.  My
questions range from specific to general PTK usability/ development
progress.  Problem is, without any responses to my questions I am beginning
to think that the PTK is very rough and any investment into it now may be a
mistake.  My concerns are that the PTK will not be easily upgradeable, and I
cannot get as much community support for it as I can with other products
like squishdot, etc.  It seems that PTK group posts and questions are
usually beyond the realm of beginning user and more on the level
development.  Please let me know if I am mistaken or not.
What is the current state of the PTK?  Is it less ready than other products
like squishdot?  If I begin using it now and new versions come out, will I
be able to apply the latest version and still retain my data?

Here are reposts of my earlier questions still unanswered:

1)
When I try to delete test members by deleting
them from the MEMBERS folder, I get the error that their
index_html file cannot be deleted (it also takes a VERY long time
after I hit the DELETE key and the index_html is listed in each
member's folder):
Error is...

Error Type: ValueError
Error Value: Uncatalog of absent id
'/IntraPort/Members/membername/index_html'
 This seems to happen only on some users- not all

2)
Where/how do you make it so that all new members are
automatically given contributor rights? (I don't want to have to
publish everyone's stuff in small company intranet)

In general, I am trying to provide enough security so that nobody
but members can see the site.

I could take a few approaches-
a) I could make it so that visitors can have enough rights to join,
but not to see any data.
b) I could make it so that nobody can even see the index_html
screen unless they are members (which means I would have to
create their user account myself before they can access) This is
starting to look like the easiest method, because then I can give
them contributor rights.

Any suggestions?

3)
Thanks for the members index_html fix (from another's posted fix to the
members page links to member index_html).  I too, would like to know how to
fix the listing of members that persist after they have been deleted.  It
seems to be an intermittent problem.

Also, I noticed that the default manager user does not have an
index_html, so after the above fix, it does not work anyway for this
user.  I tried creating an index_html file for the manager, but this
did not work.

Thanks in advance


Sean Kelley
Prompt Software, Inc.
voice: (415) 382-8840
fax:    (415) 382-8868
www.promptsoftware.com