I have been looking at Plone/Zope as a possible replacement for Lotus Domino.
It reminds me of what might happen if Lotus open sourced Domino. Tons of nice templates and apps - but lacking documentation.
For a Domino person the Object Oriented stuff is ok to wrap your head around. All the templating languages are a bit confusing though.
1) I installed the plone + zope download
Easy - but what about plone 2? They recommend it for new dev work but don't include it packaged on the downloads page.
Created the admin account
Created 2 user accounts
2) Logged into the manage view
http://127.0.0.1:8080/manage
Seems as if you don't have the 8080 you don't get the control panel
Created a couple of foulders and examined some of the options. Everything is an object - like in Notes everything is a Note.
3) Followed the Flash Video Demos here
http://movies.bluedynamics.org/plone_videos/
Logged in as a user
Created document
Created News Item
- set date
- published it
Created Calendar Entry
- there doesn't seem to be mail integration with this....
- I would have thought it should mail an ical attachment
The structured text is very cool. I would like to get the editor working like in the video.
4) The switch views - to contents view
Played around with the basic state tab
The Members view should simply list members if there are less than 50 of them. Searching by name is a headache.
It should be do-able as the demo site does it this way.
5) Worked through the ZopeZoo Example
http://zope.org/Members/jwhitener/zopeZoo_2_6
6) Changed the Portal Icon, Description etc
http://plone.org/documentation/book
7) Changed the tabs on the opening page
http://plone.org/documentation/book/b
8) Tested the issue collector
Looks ok - a bit rough around the edges
9) Checked out http://demo.plone.org
They have some cool addins - the wiki, discussion board, mpoll(polls), HTML Link
Tested copying and pasting between folders
10) Tested FTP
Logged into the local machine via FTP using the admin name and password
ftp://admin@127.0.0.1/
Fairly cool - you can access your documents quickly this way. What happened to the file extensions though? (no .ppt)
11) Backup and Restore
All the data is stored in Data.fs which is located in var directory with your log files
Stop zope
zip Data.fs
restart
backup
Also: A nice explanation
12) Created Formulator Form
Very easy Formulator from the management interface. Haven't figured out how to include in on the site though.
Read article on creating forms with Zope
Still need to test
Create a python script and have it called when you click on an Icon
LDAP Authentication against Novell LDAP or Active Directory
Exporting/Importing data via CSV
Workflow routing
User/ACL Management - GRUF
Storing Data in a relational db