Thanks for replies guys - this has given some ideas to try out. I'm also looking forward to the plugin spec being finalised as I can imagine some of the functions that I've listed here could be delivered generically via plugins.
On Dec 10, 3:21 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 1:49 am, Darcy Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 8, 5:32 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I do not know Plone well enough to make a comparison so I am not 100% > > > sure what the items means. Let me try to address them: > > > > 5. customer subdomains (customer1.example.com, customer2.example.com) > > > > yes. Via routes. > > > can this be programmatically adjusted from within web2py or do routes > > have to be manually modified ? > > You have programmatically write the routes.py and force web2py to > reload it without restarting the server. > > > > > > 2. versioning of content objects > > > > Yes.http://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/35 > > > cool ! > > > > 4. full-text search of all content objects > > > > yes, except for blobs. Full text search requires a relational database > > > and does not work on GAE > > > Plone uses Zope's Catalog tool which isn't relational - it builds > > indexes that are searchable....somehow, I don't pretend to know it > > works ;) > > > > 3. indexing and searching of binary formats (word, pdf, excel etc...) > > > > I am not sure what this means. If you could point us some description > > > of what Plone does in this respect I will take a look. > > >http://plone.org/documentation/kb/enable-full-text-indexing-of-word-d... > > Basically Plone uses a PDF/Word to Text converter and then indexes the > data. > You can theoretically use the same converter in web2py and store the > converted text in a readable/writable=False 'text' field. You would > then be able to search all documents using the db.table.field.like > (...) operator. > > > > 1. state-based workflow > > > > I am not completely sure. In web2py you can save a state in the > > > session and force a workflow based on that but there is no special > > > API. If you point us to the Plone description or show us an example we > > > can tel you how to do it in web2py. > > >http://plone.org/documentation/kb/creating-workflows-in-plone/definin... > > > Plone is a dedicated CMS, so it's optimised for this sort of thing. It > > might be that we should stick with it for the time being, but I am > > still curious whether we could replace it with web2py. > > You can do the same but in a different way. There is no centralized > place where workflow is stored (although one could define it). You > have actions that correspond to pages and contain forms. For each form > you can specify where to go after submission (next). For each action/ > table/record/action you can use role based access control to specify > who has access (membership requirements). You can store all "next" > actions and "membership requirements" in a database or simply a > dictionary and you will have the workflow implemented in a single > place. > > > > > > Massimo > > > > On Dec 8, 12:11 am, Darcy Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We have a project that we previously developed in Plone - we are > > > > considering rewriting it in web2py. It turns out Plone was a good > > > > choice *at the time* but better, more productive frameworks now exist. > > > > Anyway there are few things that Plone does well that I'm not sure how > > > > to address using web2py: > > > > > 1. state-based workflow > > > > 2. versioning of content objects > > > > 3. indexing and searching of binary formats (word, pdf, excel etc...) > > > > 4. full-text search of all content objects > > > > 5. customer subdomains (customer1.example.com, customer2.example.com) > > > > > Actually those are pretty core requirements for this project, so maybe > > > > staying with Plone is the way to go ;) But seriously, if you've made > > > > web2py do any of the above, I'd be interested to hear about it. > > > > > regards, > > > > Darcy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
