I've been using Zope (w/Plone) for some time now and am still trying to
understand how best to architect the solution for my site.
I'm presuming I need to create a Product for the new types of
objects/files I want, but even on that topic I'm not completely convinced.
My objectives and constraints are:
- The primary purpose for the site's existence is to manage some
content files (text/ml) and allow a workflow process on those.
The workflow will likely change and hopefully will have minimal
programming changes when it does.
- Users will have one of several roles: Author, Reviewer (of
which there are currently two types), and Editor.
- I do not want ANY access by unauthorized users. Obviously they
must be able to reach a login page, and get instructions on how
to request an account, password reset, etc.
- Here's the complication -- each file will have potentially
multiple versions in process at once. Each version of a file
may have a different state, and I'd like to have a history of
all changes to each version as they go through the workflow.
- Once a file/version is submitted for review, any of the reviewers
may work on it, it is not necessary that one role preceded the other,
but it is required that a user in each role approve the file.
- The workflow is subject to change (the real one that the humans
use), so this could precipitate changes to the Zope workflow:
- The users' roles may change (easy),
- There might be another type of Reviewer created that gets
grafted into the review process,
- There might be other steps ("states") added to the workflow,
and corresponding changes to the process.
- We need to have good automated backup solution for the content
(as in mirroring the content on another host).
- And, of course, I'm under pretty extreme time pressure.
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So my questions are:
0) Is DCWorkflow and a new Product [document type(s)] the way to go?
1) Is there a product that does something similar that I could use
or adapt?
2) Barring that, is there a product that would be a good starting
point?
3) Is there something that manages a file history (like CVS, etc.)
that can be easily used within Zope?
4) How does one secure a Zope+Plone site?
I'm running on FC3, Zope 2.7.6-final, Plone 2.0.5, Python 2.3.4
Thanks in advance!
Nikko
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