[Zope] CMF Intro?

[tgraham@speakeasy.net]

Hi Derek,

Take a look at http://www.zope.com/Demos/ it has some flash demos of how the CMF can be used and it's purposes. Also, http://www.zopezen.org also runs the CMF.  

It's a very cool product that has workflows that can be customized to suit your needs.

Cheers,

Todd




On 14 Jan 2002, Derek Simkowiak wrote:

>
>       I see that Zope has these cool things:
>
> o User Management and Permissions control o
> Version Control o Undo o Web-based GUI for
> site administration o ZPT and WebDAV support
> for working with things like SiteBuilder,
> FrontPage, etc. under OS X and WinXP
>
>  These are all hallmarks of a great Content
>             Management System. I
> can easily see how I'd divide up my clients'
>         corporate website using Zope.
>
>       So my question is: WTF is "CMF" for?
>       What problem does it try to solve? How
>       is it different from, well, plain old
>       Zope?
>
>       I've read the "Introduction" at
>
> http://cmf.zope.org/doc/introduction.txt
>
>       But it doesn't answer my question.
>       (Honestly, it provides practically no
>       information whatsoever and reads like a
>       marketing document. Sorry to whoever
>       wrote it.) It refers to "services" with
>       names like "SiteDesignServices" and
>       "IntegrationServices", but I have to
>       clue what those are or where to find
>       more information about them, or why I'd
>       want them.
>
>       I've also read [much of]
>
> http://cmf.zope.org/CMF/Members/beehive/ZWACK-
> Chap5.html
>
>       ...which shows me that CMF hides the
>       Zope admin interface to endusers. Is
>       that the whole point of CMF? Also, from
>       this I see that CMF provides basic
>       "types" such as "File", "Document",
>       "Image", and "Folder". Are these
>       different from Zope's types of the same
>       name? Or are they the same thing?
>
>       I have not yet d/led and
>       installed--that's my next step. But I'd
>       like to have a document, case study, or
>       demo that I can show my client before I
>       put more billable hours into this.
>
>       Please advise.
>
>
> Thank You, Derek Simkowiak
>
>
>
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