[Zope] Form Based Document Creation (Newbie)

[Raphael Goulais]

Hi,

Did you have a look at Zope CMF ? Looks like a good starting point for
your needs.

Raphael

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 23:07, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am brand new to Zope, and have a task-oriented
> type of question.  
> 
> I'd like recommendations for the best way to do
> what I'd like to do.  What I'd like to do is:
> 
> Create a variety of different forms which create
> Zope documents.  The forms would have different
> fields for different types of documents (though
> they would all have certain fields in common,
> such as author name... most of the fields would
> be displayed as part of the document body)
> I've not been able to figure out what is the
> proper Zope way to do this...
> 
> Populate a variable associated with each doc
> for "expected expiration release" (because I 
> want to be able to find all docs which are 
> either older than a certain age based on 
> creation date, or which expire with the 
> current release of our production software,
> and then assign them to someone's todo list
> to edit them)
> 
> Indeed, what I think I really want is to modify 
> numerous copies of the master template for adding 
> a document so that documentors can just add content 
> and pick from a list of document types.  However,
> I couldn't really figure out if I was going to
> keep the maximum amount of residual sanity if I
> did this by modifying all the templates by-hand,
> or doing something more automatic with Zclasses,
> or packages, or if I need to use the CMF or what...
> I could just hack stuff in Perl CGI and MySQL to
> do this, but if I learn the Zope way I'll become 
> a better person, right?  :-)
> 
> I'd like to create applications to act on these
> documents, and a whole lot more, but for starters
> I figure I need to figure out how to make these
> forms and start inputting docs that have the 
> right structure to support my apps. 
> 
> Please advise. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> LL+P,
> Stephan
> 
>  
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