[Zope-CMF] CMF Newbie In Need Of Clues

[Meilicke, Scott]

One way that I do it, and this is just one way of many, is to put code in
the index_html file to display different stuff depending upon where you are.
So I use a folder hierarchy, and within each folder, put one or more topics
to expose content.  My index_html displays all folders in the current
folder, and displays the folders description under the folder ID. The
index_html also looks for all topics in the folder, and displays the
contents of the topic.

So:

/
-HR (folder)
--Employee Benefits (topic contents)
--Handbook (topic contents)
-Engineering (folder)
--Projects (folder)
---List of projects (topic contents)
--Component List (folder)
...etc.

When you're on the home page, all you see are links to HR and Engineering.
Clicking on HR shows two lists (topics), one is a benefits section, the
other is chapters of the employee handbook.

I also put in a few calls to files, if they exist, to expose their content.
So if Engineering wants to put in a custom page, I tell them to create a
document called 'tagline', and put it in their folder.  Now index_html
renders the body of that file at the top of the page.  This gives people
some customization abilities of the site, while preserving consistency and
an easy way to expose content.

Does this make any sense?  Unfortunately this is internal only, but I can
send you my index_html if you like.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Rigal (AePONA) [mailto:daniel.rigal@aepona.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:44 AM
To: zope-cmf@zope.org
Subject: [Zope-CMF] CMF Newbie In Need Of Clues



Hi everybody,

	I am new to this list, and to CMF, and I need 
pointing in the right direction.

	Please forgive me if these questions are dumb or 
frequently asked. I did look at the FAQ and skim the list
archive. I have read:
http://cmf.zope.org/Members/beehive/ZWACKChap5.html which
was very helpful in covering skins. It was less helpful
when it comes to very basic editing of the content.

1. I am confused about sub-pages. Here is what I think I
   have worked out:

   i.	The page content for a folder is a document called
	index_html.
   ii.	If there is no index_html in the folder it gets it
	from the skin instead.
   iii. For the front page I should NOT have an index_html
	as the one in the skin provides for the news box.
   iv.	For sub-pages I need to have an index_html otherwise
	they all display exactly the same content as the 
	front page (description of front page plus news box).

   Is this right? Am I meant to make an index_html for every
   sub-page (overriding the one in the skin) or is there are 
   a another way of adding content to sub-pages?

   I am frightened that I may be fundamentally missing the
   point on this. Is there any newbie documentation in this
   area?

2. Sometimes when I am in the Zope management interface I
   get unhandled exception errors and I have to restart
   Zope. Perhaps I broke something when I was messing
   around. Should I try a clean reinstall of Zope and CMF?
   I am using Zope 2.4.1 and CMF 1.1.

Daniel.
-- 
Daniel Rigal MSc. 
Infrastructure Support            Aepona (England) Ltd
E-mail: daniel.rigal@aepona.com   Web: http://www.aepona.com/ 
Phone:  +44 1483 305214           Fax: +44 1483 305364

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