Graham Perrin wrote:
Hi, my first post.
Welcome.
1) Does anyone here have experience with Plone serving the needs of
multiple communities?
We have multiple sub-communities here at University of Leicester but
serve them all from one plone site. Seems to work well (still relatively
early days though.)
a) Is it desirable/possible/proper to have _two_ separate Plone portals
(one for Freeman Centre, one for CENTRIM) somehow inter- linked so that
searches of the former might include results from the latter?
If you've a lot of interlinking, it would seem easier to maintain, if
all in the same plone site
b) Or should we, from the outset, have just _one_ Plone portal with
Freeman Centre in mind, and CENTRIM as a sibling or subset within that
portal?
That seems the better idea to me. You can have multiple brands within a
plone site, and don't advertise to anonymous viewers, the fact that
different areas of web content come from the same plone site.
The catch: we should probably _not_ overtly express that relationship/
subset. CENTRIM is geographically co-located (at Freeman Centre) with a
research centre on University of Sussex campus, but CENTRIM is
organisationally within University of Brighton.
The only concern is if at some point this relationship changed and each
party wants to host their content seperately, which would be difficult
if it was heavily interlinked.
2) Can anyone advise, how easy would it be for ht://Dig searches i.e.
from our University home page <http://www.brighton.ac.uk/> to include
results from a Plone portal?
I'm not too familiar with ht::/Dig, but its easy to get selected content
out of Plone using various catalog searches. You can also search on
metadata. even if ht::/Dig doesn't find stuff you could append ht::/Digs
results to a Plone catalog search I would think...
BTW you can also have RSS feeds from Plone to other sites.
3) Are there any Plone 'horror stories' of which I should be aware?
;-) Do NOT do customisations through the web - do them on the
filesystem otherwise you may later have a migration mini-horror-story.
Be careful which 3rd-party add-on products you use - some are great,
some are not.
Zope Page Templates can be a pain to get your head around, although very
powerful.
It is a steep learning curve but thats partly because its a very
powerful system.
Hope that helps,
Nick
PS Others may have different opinions about whether to have one or more
sites...
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