[Zope] Using Zope for Document Collaboration

[Sin Hang Kin]

One observation is that web based editing is not user-friend. "Time-out"
will be very inconvient to users. WEBDAV might provide a better solution.

It will be convient to have a MS-WORD object which can expose section, page,
paragraph, etc as its sub-object.

It does not solve the problem of versioning and edit conflict yet. Pulling
cvs into the scene is very suitable, but you have the train the users to
work with it. In a lower service level, you may consider looking documents
and record the current owner. When a protected document is requested by
another user, his request will be refused and he can check the system to see
who is working on it. You may also put a unlock machenism periodically say
for a lock can only hold for one week and the system will unlock the
document and sent the lock owner a email about it.

Rgs.
Kent Sin