[Zope-CMF] question: CMF and collaborative authoring

[Dieter Maurer]

Joseph Wayne Norton writes:
 > I am currently spending some time understanding the CMF and have a
 > question.
 > 
 > I would like to know what is the best approach to tailor or to modify
 > the CMF to easily allow for collaborative authoring.  It is not clear
 > to me how to allow a subset of a CMF portal's members to jointly
 > author some common content that is not stored in a member's home
 > folder.
 > 
 > The simplest solution that I can imagine is to grant these member's
 > "Manager" level access (using Zope's local role mechanism) on a
 > particular CMF content object or folder.  I'm just wondering if
 > there is a better approach (which I'm sure there is) without too
 > much modification to the out-of-the-box CMF and not requiring the
 > "Manager" role.
You can use a less priviledged role (newly created, if necessary)
and give this role the permissions for all you want to allow
in the common area.


Dieter