[Zope] newbie q: howto get easy edit functionality on a database table for endusers, with input-restrictions?

[Lennart Regebro]

From: <rene@xs4all.nl>
> Hi. I'm trying to run Zope on FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE, with little success so
far.
> :(
>
> What I need to know most is if Zope can support a database application
with a
> sort of meta-definition of the database structure, so I can easily create
> definitions of forms (that are to be filled in by an end-user) in
> form-configuration files.
>
> In those form-configuration files, field and input-restrictions should be
> listed for any given table/view of/to the database.
> After that I need an engine to parse those form-configuration files into
an
> HTML window that actually allows editing of the database content..
>
> In short, I need a replacement for Microsoft Access ;-)
>
> Question: can zope do this, and if so, where is it documented?

First you need to take a look at "Formulator". It gives you easy definitions
of fields and checking of input.
Besides that, I'm not really sure what you want to do, except that I excpect
you to want to store the input to the forms.
There are so many options of doing that that I'd better let you get
aquainted with formulator first. :-)

> PS a reporting engine (a-la M$ Access) would come in handy very much, too.

I agree. I'm gonna need one in a couple of weeks. Anybody?