[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Correct Usage of Page Templates

[Tim Hicks]

[Shifted to zope@zope.org]

Brian,

not sure if it solves any of your problems, but it sounds like I went
through something similar to you recently.  Check out
http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/ByKey/E4A51E9501A43999
(and it's associated thread).

tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian R Brinegar" <brinegar@ecn.purdue.edu>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:32 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] Correct Usage of Page Templates


> Good Day,
>
> I'm having trouble grasping the complete usage of Page Templates. I
> understand the beauty of TAL and METAL.
>
> I have say a hundred secretaries that use WebDAV clients to create and
> edit content. Currently if one of them creates new content in say MS Word
> and drags it on to the Zope server a File object is created. What I want
> is to have an object with the look and feel of my standard_template
> created.
>
> I can use a put factory to have it create a new page template instead of a
> file. But then I get a page template that does not use the look and feel
> of the standard template. I could even change the default template to do
> something more reasonable but the user must create the file/object on the
> server and then edit it. A file/object cannot be created on the client and
> dropped in place on the server.
>
> I do not want to try to teach these people METAL or tell them anything
> about macros. I just want the content to drop in and fit with the look of
> my site.
>
> I have found that I can create a standard_template with:
>
>  <div tal:content="structure here/data">Content</div>
>
> in the body and then access files like index.html/standard_template and
> everything works great. The problem is that the users have to know to
> create links with /standard_template after the file.
>
> Am I thinking about something wrong? My users don't understand HTML or
> Tags they know MS Word and Dreamweaver. If I tell them to edit anything in
> source view they scream at me.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian Brinegar
>  Web System Developer / Programmer
>
>
>
>
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