[Zope-CMF] content management framework question / musings

[J. Cameron Cooper]

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>The CMF allows a user to login, to have an area that they can add content to
>and that works o.k.
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>My question is, how does all this content actually become part of a whole?
>If you take content like News -- it is totally integrated. That is, a user
>adds a News Item and once it's published, it's available. It doesn't matter
>if the user decides to move it to another folder --- the News Item is still
>picked up and displayed in the proper places. Events are somewhat similar.
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A couple things here...

Remember that users don't have to be contained to their userfolders. 
It's pretty easy to create a site hierarchy with folders and, by the 
magic of local roles, limit users to branches of that hierarchy. That 
gives you a browsable, searchable, and controlled structure.

Or, you could use Portal Topics, the "ZCatalog query in a can." 
Documents stored anywhere in the CMF site can seem to look as if in a 
folder based on their contents. The "Subject" metadata field is good for 
this. Or you coud use the types tool to make types of documents that 
Topics would then include at some browsable level; this is much like the 
news function in the default site or like the Howtos on zope.org.

            --jcc
        (a howto)