Thank you for your answer.
I thought about a CMS system but I believe a CMS is also not the kind of
app I`m searching because it is more about the document itself and that
everybody can edit it.
So, I noticed I stressed the interactivity a little bit to much in my
previous explanation.
The primary focus is more on the template form creation. It is not
about documents like research papers where more person contribute but
moreover documents describing processes within the university. So one
persons fills out an official form describing what he wants to do and
then all persons and positions which are involved can see this form.
Ultimately the data security official has to give its "ok" according to
what he can see in the filled out document and the described process can
be used.
And if the request is rejected by the data security official the creator
should have the possibility to edit his won document according to the
reason why it was rejected.
I hope this makes it more clear what I`m trying to develop.
Sorry, for asking twice but I really want to be sure that Forrest is not
what I`m searching.
Kai
Ross Gardler schrieb:
Short answer - no, Forest is not suitable for your use case.
Forrest is an XML publishing framework, it is not a Content Management
System.
Since Forrest is built on top of Cocoon, a web application framework,
you could make it do all the things you want, but you would be much
better adopting a framework already suitable for the purpose. I.e. go
directly to Cocoon or take a look at the two Cocoon based CMS systems:
http://lenya.apache.org
http://www.cocoondev.org/daisy
Personally I think Daisy is better suited to your needs. Lenya is a
CMS framework and would need much more work to get o the stage you
want (although gives you more flexibility in the long term). Daisy is
pretty much ready for your needs now.
The downside of daisy is that it does not store the structured part of
your data in a relational database and so querying a large data set
will be inefficient. You can modify it to do this, but if you have a
large data set you may be better considering Lenya since, as I say, it
is a framework designed for such customisation.
Of course there are plenty of other solutions you could go for that do
not use Cocoon as the framework, Apache alone has about a fair few
webapp framework projects.
Ross
chemosh wrote:
Hello!
If this is not the right place to ask my question I apologize in
advance.
Currently I`m trying to decide if forrest is the correct choice to
fulfill my needs and I hope you can answer that or at least say if
you think that forrest can do what I want it to do.
I`m working as an student employee at a university and as you can
image there is a lot paperwork do to.The normal practice here is to
fill out word documents with some macros then bring them, or in some
cases send them via email to the next department where the document
is reviewed, feedback given, etc.......altogether very ineffective.
My job now is to provide a web-based solution where a user can fill
out and edit a form and then when he is finished it is send to the
right persons which can review it, give feedfack, etc......everything
via the website. So until everything is correct no more printing, etc
should be necessary.
I want the forms to be created via templates so that a new form can
easily be adapted and used.
So in the end the user should be able to view every document they
ever created. Easily create and edit new documents and export them to
various formats and it should be quite easy to integrate new forms
via templates. ;)
So to get to my question again, can this be done with the help of
forrest as basic "framework" for the webapp or do you think that
another framework would be better suited for the job?
Greetings,
Kai
