[Zope-CMF] Re: Dreamweaver and webdav with zope/cmf

[Tonico Strasser]

Hello,

Sally Owens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get Dreamweaver to work 'nicely' with our CMF site and 
> there are a few things I wanted to ask this list (i've serached the 
> archives but can't find answers to the Qs below). I personally am not 
> intending to use Dreamweaver with Zope/CMF, but we have numerous web 
> editors here who are already using DW and will probably want to continue 
> doing so.
> 
> 1] Has a work-around been found yet for the fact that Dreamweaver will 
> only show files from the CMF site in code view (rather than 'design 
> mode')? I realise that this stems from Dreamweaver's inability to handle 
> files without .html file extensions, but I wondered whether the only 
> solution really *is* to name all our files '*.html' in our CMF site 
> (this seems to go against the way Zope and CMF were written)?! If we do 
> rename all our files with .html extensions what will 'break'?

Should work with CMF content.

Can we
> just handle this with Apache rules (to look for index.html rather than 
> index_html) or will it break all sorts of things in our CMF site?
> 
> 2] Can Dreamweaver handle content types other than the default 
> 'Document'? We have written lots of content types will additional fields 
> and when I view these in Dreamweaver, the content of these fields isn't 
> there. Is there any configuration that can be done to ensure that 
> Dreamweaver (or webdav? Not sure where this problem lies) 'sees' the 
> fields of content types other than 'Document'?

This depends on how manage_FTPget and PUT is handled by those content types.

> 
> 3] I had assumed that when editing content via Dreamweaver you would be 
> able to see the content *within* the appropriate template, but from my 
> experiments so far this doesn't seem the case. Can Dreamweaver do this?
> Does webdav pass the info. relating to the 'view form' for a given 
> content type and the associated template to Dreamweaver? Or am I 
> expecting something that isn't technically possible?

To get the 'real' content, enable and use the WebDav source port or use FTP.

Tonico


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