On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if the task requires creating another mailing list - because
> Zope makes things so simple.
yes, once you set up the site it can act as a repository of information. Maybe
you can use the discussion groups product availabe for zope ;-).
(downloadable at zope.org)
>> Here's roughly the idea I have:
>
> - Users upload answers to common questions as a HTML file into Zope.
> - A hierarchical question categroy tree (install, X, mail, partitioning etc)
> is created in a database
Another idea ,
There is an article in XML.org and describes creating a FAQ on using
zope. Along these lines You can create a very simple DTD for this
for ex:
<title>
STB-card How-to
</title>
<category>
Video cards
</category>
<question>
How can I blah blah
</question>
<answer>It has been discussed on LI a thousand times etc etc so dont post this
on the list ;-) ,heres the summary of all responses blah blah blah
</answer>
We can then make use of the zope XML product functionality. All you need
is a simple DTML method that uses the XML product to parse these files
and generate HTML.
users would for example create such a file and just upload it in the
respective folder for each category. Better yet you can create a method that
will look at the category and simply file it in the right category
> - Each question/answer
>has a synopsis line that can be searched upon
Better way to do it in Zope : you can also make these objects ZCatalog aware and
automatically create an indexed category object for searching. Zope will even
generate the search interface for you :-)
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