[Zope-CMF] Dreamweaver and webdav with zope/cmf

[Sally Owens]

Hi,

I'm trying to get Dreamweaver to work 'nicely' with our CMF site and there 
are a few things I wanted to ask this list (i've serached the archives but 
can't find answers to the Qs below). I personally am not intending to use 
Dreamweaver with Zope/CMF, but we have numerous web editors here who are 
already using DW and will probably want to continue doing so.

1] Has a work-around been found yet for the fact that Dreamweaver will only 
show files from the CMF site in code view (rather than 'design mode')? I 
realise that this stems from Dreamweaver's inability to handle files 
without .html file extensions, but I wondered whether the only solution 
really *is* to name all our files '*.html' in our CMF site (this seems to 
go against the way Zope and CMF were written)?! If we do rename all our 
files with .html extensions what will 'break'? Can we just handle this with 
Apache rules (to look for index.html rather than index_html) or will it 
break all sorts of things in our CMF site?

2] Can Dreamweaver handle content types other than the default 'Document'? 
We have written lots of content types will additional fields and when I 
view these in Dreamweaver, the content of these fields isn't there. Is 
there any configuration that can be done to ensure that Dreamweaver (or 
webdav? Not sure where this problem lies) 'sees' the fields of content 
types other than 'Document'?

3] I had assumed that when editing content via Dreamweaver you would be 
able to see the content *within* the appropriate template, but from my 
experiments so far this doesn't seem the case. Can Dreamweaver do this? 
Does webdav pass the info. relating to the 'view form' for a given content 
type and the associated template to Dreamweaver? Or am I expecting 
something that isn't technically possible? Most people will be editing 
their content through our edit forms (written for each of our content 
types), but we had assumed that they would also be able to edit content via 
DW if they desired (which many of them probably will, simply because it 
wont require a change in their working practises)?

Any advice (apart from 'don't use Dreamweaver'!) gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Sally