[Zope-PTK] PTK Status update, portal content objs

Kevin Dangoor kid@kendermedia.com
Wed, 31 May 2000 22:32:34 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Schonfeld" <alex@garage.co.jp>
To: <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] PTK Status update, portal content objs


> On Wed, 31 May 2000 16:59:10 -0400
> "Kevin Dangoor" <kid@kendermedia.com> wrote:
>
> > This is something that I think is quite plausible. I think ZPatterns
0.4.0
> > will provide great tools for creating very flexible PortalContent
objects.
> > Experienced Zope users will be able to download Membership and the
different
> > types of PortalContent and use them as they wish within Zope. They'll be
> > able to configure new content notifications and policies however they
want
> > (and vary that from folder to folder). New users will run a wizard that
will
> > give them a complete Portal, with the Membership and PortalContent
review
> > policies already configured.
>
> So should the Portal maintain its current objects like "File", "Image",
> "link", "NewsItem" etc... or ideally move them all to ZPatterns?

My feeling is that the existing PortalContent will migrate to ZPatterns 0.4
DataSkins, which unfortunately haven't been released yet... I don't expect
it to be a difficult migration.

Kevin