[Zope] why use zope?

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Chris McDonough wrote:
> Have you tried letting them in via FTP and/or WebDAV?  Or possibly
> constructing an upload form for new documents that makes use of a file
> attachment?
ftp is a no-no :)  webdav, i have to look at.

> 
> That said, your job should probably be to make it bone-simple for your
> end users to publish stuff using Zope.  This may take a bit of
> programming.   Perhaps construct an upload application which allows them
> to upload an HTML file which gets parsed for identifying characteristics
> and gets placed in the "right" area automagically or some such thing. 
> It's definitely possible to make it pretty easy for your users to do

that is in the wish list.  the only thing i can think off now is lumping all
existing contents in one dir, use lynx to update the appropriate properties in
the appropriate ZClass automatically (cron(?)) using manageEdit, manageAdd or
others.  or store data in an RDBMS.  but i lost out on keyword search.  i would
like to keep things in zodb for now.

> stuff quickly.  Weaning them from the publish button isn't easy, but it
> can be done.

it can be done, but after i'm black and blue :)

thanks