[Zope-CMF] CMF - not in your face?

[J. Cameron Cooper]

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>How much of CMF can be hidden? All of it?
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Yep. Just go and delete all the skins. Hides it pretty effectively.

Sorry. Not very constructive, I know, but so wide open.

>Most sites are divided up into the large number of people who use the site
>by browsing/searching; and the (relatively) small number of people who
>actually contribute content. Why is CMF setup so that all the CMF stuff is
>visible to every user?
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That's not necessarily true. The CMF used to be the PTK (Portal Toolkit) 
and in a portal, it makes sense to always have a little box out to the 
side that reminds one of one's current role. When using the CMF in a 
largely information management and publishing role, the default setup 
begins to make less sense.

>How would you go about hiding CMF from those large
>number of people. That is, no indication for the casual user of the web site
>that CMF is being used at all? If I had a URL that a contributor would have
>to go to login and then alter the actions_box DTML method would that do it?
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That's how I would do it. I'm afraid I can't tell you off the top o' me 
head *exactly* how to do it, but probably the easiest thing to do with 
the default setup would be to provide a login url that has the actions 
box and then wrap the one in standard_html_header with a dtml-if tag 
that's only true when the user is authenticated. Search the list or docs 
or source for "authenticated user" to find out how.

        ---jcc
    (not authenticated)