[Zope-CMF] Multi-CMF-site development considerations
Ronald L Roeber
rroeber1@unl.edu
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:38:22 -0500
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All,
We are developing a set of websites that will be used by 60 of our
satellite offices. We are planning to use Zope-CMF. Our first step will
be to develop three or four sets of skins and add some portal_properties
so that each of these satellite offices will be able to have their own
(CMF) site. We will use a combination of existing relational databases
and Zope acquisition to provide institutional content. Each office CMF
site will be used to store and manage local content that will be blended
with relevant institutional content. Although the first version of this
effort will be relatively modest, the first features will provide the
local offices with the potential to produce much richer sites with much
less effort. We would like to continue adding features in the future (CMF
and those of our own development). So...
1. What should we be looking at as best practices to allow these sites to
take advantage of future upgrades to CMF and Zope taking into account we
will have 60 or more instances?
( we plan to place our custom skins on the file system)
2. Should we be looking at scripts or external methods to initialize new
portal_properties? (office name, district affiliation, home-page
preferences, skins, etc) are there considerations for future versions of
CMF if we define our own properties.
I know this will work and work well. I've looked at a lot of information
on the CMF site and mailing list. I would like to know how to approach
this so that we have the best chance to grow with our user's expectations,
CMF and Zope--not to mention minimizing our development time.
Thanks for any guidance.
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Ronald L. Roeber
CIT-IANR
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583 Phone: (402) 472-5630
email: rroeber1@unl.edu
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">All,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We are developing a set of websites that will be used by 60 of our satellite offices. We are planning to use Zope-CMF. Our first step will be to develop three or four sets of skins and add some portal_properties so that each of these satellite offices will be able to have their own (CMF) site. We will use a combination of existing relational databases and Zope acquisition to provide institutional content. Each office CMF site will be used to store and manage local content that will be blended with relevant institutional content. Although the first version of this effort will be relatively modest, the first features will provide the local offices with the potential to produce much richer sites with much less effort. We would like to continue adding features in the future (CMF and those of our own development). So...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1. What should we be looking at as best practices to allow these sites to take advantage of future upgrades to CMF and Zope taking into account we will have 60 or more instances?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">( we plan to place our custom skins on the file system)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2. Should we be looking at scripts or external methods to initialize new portal_properties? (office name, district affiliation, home-page preferences, skins, etc) are there considerations for future versions of CMF if we define our own properties.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I know this will work and work well. I've looked at a lot of information on the CMF site and mailing list. I would like to know how to approach this so that we have the best chance to grow with our user's expectations, CMF and Zope--not to mention minimizing our development time.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks for any guidance.</font>
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Ronald L. Roeber<br>
CIT-IANR<br>
University of Nebraska<br>
Lincoln, NE 68583 Phone: (402) 472-5630<br>
email: rroeber1@unl.edu <br>
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