[Zope] users, properties and roles

[David Hassalevris]

Hey John,
I wrote something that tracked new roles, eg 'accountant', 'management', etc
and other information about users.  I found that using simpleUserFolder and
hooking it up to an external DB (interbase) gave me everything I needed -
plus easier portibility.
David
ps if you decide to test out simpleUserFolder DO NOT test it in zope/root
but in a test subdirectory - otherwise you might lock yourself out of Zope.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hunter" <jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu>
To: "Zope Users" <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: [Zope] users, properties and roles


>
> I am writing a zope2 workflow product.  There are a variety of roles
> in the flow: a researcher, administrator, reviewer.  I am in the very
> early stages of implementing the product and am wondering how to best
> reuse zope's users and rolls.
>
> For example, I would like to have extra properties on my users, say an
> email address, contact phone etc.  Is it good practice to subclass
> AccessControl.User.BasicUser and BasicUserFolder to add properties to
> the user?
>
> Is it good practice to add the additional roles (researcher, reviewer)
> within the standard manage_access framework?  In out project, these
> roles can overlap (you can be a researcher and a reviewer on different
> projects in the same workflow) and do determine access level
> information.
>
> I've looked over the  User Management products at zope.org.  Does one
> or more of these come recommended to support, for example, easy
> addition of user properties as described above?
>
> Thanks for any and all advice!
> John Hunter
>
> Zope-2.7
>
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