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

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