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 ? > 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-documents-and-pdfs-in-plone-3-0-gnu-linux > 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/defining-workflow-states 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. > > 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.

