[Zope-CMF] Newbie Questions
Rolander, Dan
Dan.Rolander@marriott.com
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:28:49 -0400
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Okay, I've been playing with CMF for awhile, and I've figured out how to
customize the skins and how to maneuver around a CMF portal and use the
basic functions. I'd like to use it to build a intranet community website
for knowledge sharing. Here are some questions I have (forgive me if the
answers are obvious-- I'm still new at this):
o There was a lot of information on www.zope.org <http://www.zope.org> for
PTK that is missing on cmf.zope.org. For instance, the ZWiki. After reading
the Everitt/Mannheimer interview on oss4lib, it seems they plan to integrate
the best aspects of Wiki into CMF. So is the ZWiki forum for CMF/PTK being
dropped intentionally? If not, what is the vision for how other products
such as Wiki or Squishdot should or could be integrated into a CMF website?
Does it make sense to do that?
o The ability for users to create custom areas of the site and maintain
their own content is cool, but how do other uses discover that content? Is
posting a news item the best and/or only way? How should topics be used on a
site basis? How do users know what keywords have been entered as metadata to
give them a clue as to what to search for?
o If a user (for whatever reason) leaves the community, what becomes of
their content? Can it be transferred to another user?
o When a user creates content, can they assign edit rights to other users?
o How can a user create content that will be accessible from a common area
of the web site? Does the site manager need to put it there and create a
link to it?
o How does cmf.zope.org automatically create an index_html page for new
users? My new CMF instance doesn't do this.
That's enough questions for now, but I'm sure I'll have more as I learn more
about this product. Thanks for helping.
Dan
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>Okay, I've been
playing with CMF for awhile, and I've figured out how to customize the skins and
how to maneuver around a CMF portal and use the basic functions. I'd like to use
it to build a intranet community website for knowledge sharing. Here are some
questions I have (forgive me if the answers are obvious-- I'm still new at
this):</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>o There was a
lot of information on <A href="http://www.zope.org">www.zope.org</A> for PTK
that is missing on cmf.zope.org. For instance, the ZWiki. After reading the
Everitt/Mannheimer interview on oss4lib, it seems they plan to integrate the
best aspects of Wiki into CMF. So is the ZWiki forum for CMF/PTK being dropped
intentionally? If not, what is the vision for how other products such as Wiki or
Squishdot should or could be integrated into a CMF website? Does it make sense
to do that?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>o The ability
for users to create custom areas of the site and maintain their own content is
cool, but how do other uses discover that content? Is posting a news item the
best and/or only way? How should topics be used on a site basis? How do users
know what keywords have been entered as metadata to give them a clue as to what
to search for?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>o If a user
(for whatever reason) leaves the community, what becomes of their content? Can
it be transferred to another user?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>o When a user
creates content, can they assign edit rights to other users?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>o How can a
user create content that will be accessible from a common area of the web site?
Does the site manager need to put it there and create a link to
it?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>o How does
cmf.zope.org automatically create an index_html page for new users? My new CMF
instance doesn't do this.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=665481912-11042001>That's enough
questions for now, but I'm sure I'll have more as I learn more about this
product. Thanks for helping.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=665481912-11042001>Dan</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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