[Zope-CMF] Eliminating the /Members directory?

[Tres Seaver]

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:42, David Elfstrom wrote:
> I'm wondering what can be done to eliminate the /Members directory in the CMF.
> 
> Basically I want to have people be able to contribute documents, news 
> items, articles, and other document types, but I don't want those documents 
> to be stored in the /Members/username -- I want them to be stored in /news 
> and /articles and /policies. User accounts should be able to come and go, 
> but what the user creates should stay. Does this make sense? Has anyone 
> else done this with the CMF, or did you just roll-your-own content 
> management system in Zope?

Two things:

  - Turn off member folder creation in the membership tool;  members
    won't have the folder.

  - Give the users the "Owner" local role in the specific folders
    where you want them to add content.

That's it.

Tres.
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