[Zope-CMF] Moderated Discussion

[Antwan Reijnen]

Hi Lennon, did you consider the Blark Weblog? Out of the box with much functionality like you describe. It's in CMFOptions.

Good luck, Antwan.

At 20:12 13-2-02 -0800, you wrote:
>I've worked with Zope previously, but am relatively new to the CMF, so
>please forgive any blatant newbie-isms I'm about to throw out there.
>
>Basically, the project I'm working on requires a moderated discussion
>capability. The workflow tools in the CMF seem like a good fit, but I'm
>struggling with the issue of how best to add a normal workflow process to
>the DiscussionItem type, which normally jumps directly to the "published"
>state.
>
>I've looked at the Python sources in CMFDefault, and can see a line near
>the top of the DiscussionItem class definition which sets the workflow
>status of new comments to "published" by default. I also can't see any
>additional code which looks as though it would prevent the discussion type
>from being subject to the default workflow policies. However, I wanted to
>do a quick sanity-check with a more experienced group before I started
>hacking sources to do what might be a very simple change.
>
>My basic plan had been to create a new "Posting" class, which would behave
>more like the standard CMF types, including a "publishing" view method. It
>might even simply inherit from the DiscussionTool class, but block the
>automatic publishing operation, so that user comments would also have to be
>approved by a site moderator.
>
>Does this sound crazy? Are there any big "gotchas" lurking in the heart of
>the CMF that might make this much more complex than I think?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lennon Day-Reynolds
>lennon@day-reynolds.com
>
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