[Zope-CMF] DocumentLibrary and CMF/Plone question

[Casey Duncan]

In short DocumentLibrary =3D=3D Apple and CMF =3D=3D Orange ;^)

DocumentLibrary is a document managment system application with taxonical=
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indexing, full text searching on popular file formats and simple meta dat=
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It also has a very minimal workflow and the ui is customizable through DT=
ML.

CMF is a framework for building content management system applications. I=
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much more general then DL. You could use CMF to build the DL (and I proba=
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would were I to do it over now).

So the main benefit for DL is that it is a finished application out of th=
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box. Assuming it meets your requirements you just customize it to your ne=
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It is extensible most easily with TTW code and using whatever Zope facili=
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you like.

The CMF is much more flexible (and uncarved) and would be a better choice=
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DL does not satisfy your requirements very well. You will do more legwork=
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but you'll probably understand the application more thoroughly.

As for the the full text searching, TextIndexNG will give you similar=20
functionality (it was derived from DL actually). Or you could just use th=
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DocumentFile class from DL as a base for a CMF content class.

hth,

-Casey

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 10:22 am, Ruslan Spivak wrote:
> Hello zope-cmf users,
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> Can anybody explain me difference between DocumentLibrary and CMF
> capabilities. As I understand I can organize my documents using
> CMF/Plone and the main difference is that DocumentLibrary can use exter=
nal
> parsers for different kind of files.
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> Any suggestions are appreciated.
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> Best regards,
>  Ruslan                          mailto:alienoid@is.lg.ua
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