[Zope] Confera FAQ?

[Jay Ashton]

Zopesters,

I've started playing around width Confera and have realized that it's
worthy of much more useful documentation than currently exists (which,
as far as I have been able to find, is none at all). I'm still very new
to Confera and don't yet have any insights of my own, but would really
love to volunteer my time to maintain at least a FAQ. Would others find this
helpful? Has anyone else started work on this? Could/should it be
integrated into to ZDP project? Should I host it on one of my servers
for now? Please advise!

Assuming no one else has begun this, I dug through the various zope
sites and lists and put together the very little bit of Confera info
that I could find into a FAQ. And I added a few unanswered questions
that I and others have been wondering about. If it sounds at all worthwhile, 
send along corrections, answers, additions, suggestions, more questions, etc.!

Hope this can turn into something helpful!  - Jay

PS - BTW if anyone's interested, I and a few others here at a 
company called Digital Garage in Tokyo have built probably
the first Zoped sites in Japan. One that we produce is SonicNet Japan
(partnered with SonicNet in the US, EU, AU) and just about a week ago we
launched a new site with a role-based, scheduled news and
cybercast publishing system with integrated artist information, a
user-contributed and dynamically ranked network of personal music fan
pages (affiliate-esque), and more. (We hope to have some products
contributed as soon as we have time!)
http://www.sonicnet.co.jp/ (warning - it's all in Japanese!)


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-  What is Confera? 
Confera is a threaded discussion Product for <a
href="http://www.zope.org/">Zope</a> that was created by <a
href="http://www.digicool.com/">Digital Creations</a> and is licensed
under the Zope Public License as Open Source. Confera is not currently
supported by Digital Creations support staff without a support or
partnership agreement.


- Is Confera a supported product?
No, Confera is not currently supported by Digital Creations support staff
without a <a href="?">support or partnership agreement</a>.


- Where can I get Confera?
http://www.zope.org/Download/Prereleases/Confera


- How do I install Confera?
Assuming you've got <a href="">Zope</a> (version 1.10.2 
or higher) up and running,  you'll find information on installing products 
<a href="????">here</a>.


- How do I display the total number of messages in a topic?
Call the 'item_count' method of the 'topic' object.

   <!--#in topic-->
   There are <!--#var item_count--> messages in this topic.
   <!--#/in-->


- How do I expand all tree branches by default?
***** ????? *****
NOTE- I saw Martin's tip on setting 'expand_all' to a non-zero 
value, but this didn't work for me either...


- How do I include links to the "next" and "previous" messages?
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- How do I display messages in reverse chronological order (newest
messages at top)?
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- Is it possible to "un-tree" a message index and display a simple,
unindented list of message titles?
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- Can I check out a functional implementation of Confera?
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- Who maintains the code for Confera?
***** ????? *****


- Confera rocks! Who can I thank for this fabulous software?!?
Thanks go to Brian Lloyd and rest of the amazing gang at Digital Creations! 
http://www.digicool.com/


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