[opencms-dev] openCMS as document management system: some questions

[M Butcher]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 03:44, Jan Moons wrote:
> first off (and I've asked this before): are there any guidelines on how to develop a new view module? We want to use a lot of the functionality of the openCMS workplace, but show it in a different way. For instance, Folders would be dossiers, and wouldn't be shown i a tree, but in a filtered list. On the right side of the screen the documents belonging to a certain dossier would be shown. Per dossier you would also have some standard documents already available when you create a new dossier. The Users would than be able to upload their versions of these standard documents. The standard documents wouldn't really be documents then, but more like folders to hold the versions of the documents the users upload.

I guess you could do that... for the most part, all you're really doing
is changing iconography and setting up a couple of unique behaviors. I'd
imagine you'd use projects to implement the "filtered" appearance. 

That said, I'm fairly sure you'll have to do a good deal of (re)coding
of the workplace XML Templates and classes, since you are making a
fairly large change in the workplace "paradigm".

Matt

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