[Zope] Newbie zope site architecture question

[Andy]

Thats exactly what the CMF does.

http://cmf.zope.org

But dont worry it doesnt have to look ugly:

http://zopezen.org
http://pluggable.metazope.org/metazope

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Turoff" <steveturoff@home.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: [Zope] Newbie zope site architecture question


> Greetings,
>
> I am building an extranet for customers using Zope. Being new to Zope, I'm
> still trying to figure out the best way to organize this. Here are the
> basic requirements:
>
> 1) All content is private - every customer must have a username and
password.
> 2) After login, the customer is taken to their section. The basic format
> and design of each customer's section is the same. For the purposes of
this
> email, let's assume that each customer has the following sections:
> a) projects - a place where I can post information (html pages, Word
> documents, Excel documents, ...) pertaining to each project that I am
> working on for the customer. A customer may have multiple projects going
> on, each of which has a set of documents associated with it.
> b) schedule - a place where I can post a schedule for the customer
> c) documents - a place where the customer and I can both post documents
> 3) Adding new sections, for example, 'news', should not cause any problems
> with old customers. For example, if I have thirty existing customers that
> each have the three sections listed above, and then I decide that I want
to
> add a 'news' section, I should not have to add thirty zope folders to
> accomodate the existing customers (or there should be an easy way of doing
> this.)
> 4) Adding new customers should be easy
> 5) Customers have view access to everything in their section, and write
> access to certain parts.
> 6) There will be some generic sections (for example, Annoucements) where
> the information is the same for all clients.
>
> I have a good idea of how I would build this using other technologies
> (e.g., jsp and mySQL), but am not sure how to organize it using
> Zope.  Should I create folders for each customer, folders for each
section,
> or both? Should I put the actual data for each customer into a relational
> database and retrieve it from there? I've read the Zope Book and am
> confident that I can figure out a good way of accomplishing all of this,
> but I would like to benefit from other's experience, if possible. Any help
> would be much appreciated.
>
> Steve
>
>
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