[Zope-CMF] content management framework question / musings

[Frank McGeough]

The CMF allows a user to login, to have an area that they can add content to
and that works o.k.

My question is, how does all this content actually become part of a whole?
If you take content like News -- it is totally integrated. That is, a user
adds a News Item and once it's published, it's available. It doesn't matter
if the user decides to move it to another folder --- the News Item is still
picked up and displayed in the proper places. Events are somewhat similar.

For document content things are left to the user. Search provides a
wonderful level of integration, of course, but that is a (very useful but)
poor substitute for intelligent organization (in my opinion). Since this is
the case it seems like my users should actually be roles.  That is, if I was
working on a newspaper type model --- I would have a sports user, an
editorial user, etc. The main menu would link the person browsing the site
to these sections. The section would have a main DTML document that would
layout the section and show the current available content. This main DTML
would always be available. The main DTML document would have to have logic
in it to iterate through the user (role) folders getting the proper content.
If I was doing a daily type of publishing environment then I could picture
having a folder that writers would work out of for the next days article,
and having a folder that is the current days content. I would then have a
deadline and have a program that would move the current days content to an
archived folder, move the working area content into the current days folder
and leave the working area clean for the next days work.

Is this how the CMF designers picture their system being used (apart from
how it used at the CMF site and other similar sites that have more of the
garage sale interface --- that is, there may be a lot of interesting stuff
but you are going to have to find it yourself). Is there any docs that the
CMF designers have written that describe how a site could organize content
generation. In general, how do people see how content gets integrated when
using CMF so the web site provides a valuable user experience? Do you use
smart queries along the line of the News/Events to organize the other types
of content?