[Zope3-dev] general question regarding zope3

[Stephan Richter]

On Friday 08 August 2003 12:28, ChongQing Xiao wrote:

> Question 1:
>
> Is anyone using zope as an application sever (beside using it as CMS)?

Of course. Many different types of Web sites and applications have been built 
on top of Zope (not Zope 3 yet). Zope just comes with a lot of features that 
are required by CMS systems.

> For example, if I want to design a schedule system for Hospital, how do
> we handle the complex relation between
>
> Patient, Appointment, Department, Visit Type, it seems the folder
> concept used in Zope doesn't fit quite well in this case.
>
> If Patient is the root folder, I can see appointment will be a child
> under patient, but then how do we fit in Department, Visit Type,
> Provider, will they be their

A system similar to this has been built by Tim Cook.

> I can of course use relation database to handle this but then I lost
> most of the build in feather of zope.

There is no need for relational databases here.

> The only example which fits into this is ERP5 (www.erp5.com
> <http://www.erp5.com/> ) but I am wondering if zope3 has any new
> function will resolve this problem.

What is the problem? 

BTW, the link is broken.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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