[Zope-CMF] CMF for intranets?

[seb bacon]

It depends on what you want out of an intranet.  I think for document
management and knowledge-sharing it's great.  For example, I created a
CMF type based on MSWordDocument, which automatically indexes and
htmlifies word docs, which is useful in a mixed environment where not
everyone has word.  I posted a scriptlet a while ago which makes it
easy to bookmark a webpage on the extranet, which is also useful for
sharing information.  Combined with metatdata and topics, you end up
with useful views on your files.  Add webdav and you've got a very
rich fileserver with a searchable web interface.  the great thing is,
the cmf does most of these things out of the box - in fact IMO it's
*more* suited to this kind of thing than website management.

seb

* Dunigan, Craig <craig.dunigan@esker.com> [010628 21:12]:
> Perhaps my reservations are due to lack of knowledge of the product.  It
> seems to me that it's ideal for creating portals and "news" sites, but
> things like "Topics" and "News Items" seem only marginally relevant to this
> task.  Maybe I just don't understand how they're used yet.  Since I see that
> at least two people say they are using it successfully for the same job, I
> won't give up on it just yet.  But if anyone wants to shorten my learning
> curve with some examples, I'd be delighted!  
> 
> Craig
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Puster [mailto:john.puster@acymtech.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:43 PM
> > To: 'Dunigan, Craig'; 'zope-cmf@zope.org'
> > Subject: RE: [Zope-CMF] CMF for intranets?
> > 
> > 
> > I'm currently developing/maintaining my company's intranet 
> > with CMF (and a
> > few other non-CMF Zope products).  So far, it's worked very well.  I
> > probably wouldn't recommend it to a gargantuan company with 
> > lots of clueless
> > users, but I think it's perfect for small to medium sized 
> > companies, and
> > it's improving every day.
> > 
> > What are your reservations in using CMF?
> > 
> > -john
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dunigan, Craig [mailto:craig.dunigan@esker.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:28 PM
> > > To: 'zope-cmf@zope.org'
> > > Subject: [Zope-CMF] CMF for intranets?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can anyone give some advice on the suitability of CMF for a company
> > > intranet?  I'd been considering giving it a try, but now that 
> > > I've actually
> > > taken some time to look at it, I'm not so sure it's right 
> > for us.  Has
> > > anyone actually built an intranet with CMF?
> > 
> 
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