[Zope] Using Zope for Document Collaboration

[Casey Duncan]

Mark Langkau wrote:
> 
> Thanks Loren -
> 
> I installed both of them yesterday, which is what started me down this path. I *really* like DocumentLibrary. I didn't see anything in either product for actually editing the document from within the
> library though. (It's quite possible that I missed it - I'm just beginning to work with them)

Yes, neither are really designed as collaborative tools like what you
want.

> 
> We will be using DocumentLibrary to archive past RFP's.  Thank you Kaivo for some great tools!
> 

Glad you like it.

> What I think I'm looking for really feels like a Zope app. I'm probably just not aware of the full capabilities of tools like cmf, ZWiki, DocumentLibrary/MSWordMunger, XML, etc. I'm sure it's in
> there somewhere ;-)  Am I on the right path thinking that ZWiki will be the way to edit this text online (without using the Zope Management Interface?) We're trying to avoid the "download - edit -
> upload" process.

Wikis are collaborative, but very light on content formatting, heavier
on the inter-document links. It would be a challenge (though not
impossible) to make a single document from a Wiki.

> 
> I'll check the conversion output from MSWordMunger and let you know about your <h#> observation. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

The munger should convert the heading styles. If you edit the wvZope.xml
file in the product, you can make it output code for any styles you
please. It will convert other formatting as well to the standard tags
(bold, italic, underline, superscript, etc.). You could even make it
generate XML from a Word document if you like.

Making a word document back out of the HTML/XML/DTML objects would
probably be challenging. I think wvWare is beginning to support this
however.

> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 

I think the complexity of this project depends on the sophistication of
your users (do they know HTML/XML, do they need a WYSIWYG editor, or is
structured text good enough?) and what capabilities you want in Zope to
collaborate on these docs.

Perhaps there is a better network file system based solution already in
existence?

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