[Zope-dev] UserFolder and xmlrpc

[Bill Anderson]

On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 18:58, Richard Jones wrote:
> Are there any plans to "update" UserFolder to allow xmlrpc calls into it? The 
> addition of manage_addUser/manage_editUser/etc that wrap 
> _doAddUser/_doChangeUser/etc would probably suffice. The current manage_users 
> interface is not xml-rpc friendly, unfortunately :)
> 
> The point of this, BTW, is to allow a user-friendly "control panel" on the 
> mac and windows to add (and possibly later edit) manager users. We find that 
> the process of [remembering|setting] the admin password and then logging in, 
> finding acl_users, adding a user, logging out (usually quitting the browser), 
> logging back in is quite a problem for our users. Hence the control panel 
> being able to add a manager user in one step.


You may consider downloading the ZMC GUI, it does most of this, and uses
XML-RPC. it is written in Python and GTK. I am owkring on one in
wxPython, for X-Platform use.

Personally, I'd prefer a SOAP interface.


Bill Anderson