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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
 > Chad Knepp wrote:
 > > This is mostly Chad having fun and doesn't have that much to do with
 > > our project other than having http://permaculture.info resolve to a
 > > pretty webpage.  Anyway, this is a heavy duty collaborative CMS
 > > environment complete with workflows and other nifty features... think
 > > *wiki on steroids*.  John S.: Collector is there if you wanna mess
 > > with it, but it didn't look that great to me.
 > 
 > I assume Collector is an email tool used to distribute content we work on?

Actually it's a bug tracking system like Bugzilla.  John S. was
interested in it.

 > > Y'all should have gotten an email with a login name and a password
 > > (that you can change).  If you didn't and want one write me directly. 
 > > 
 > > If you want to mess around you should be able to create news articles,
 > > discussions, comments, etc.  Also check out the search engine.
 > 
 > Very nice work! Lots of potential as a collaborative tool. Goodly learning 
 > curve
 > but can be mastered. Ok if we ask you usage questions about it here? Or 
 > are there
 > Plone docs that apply?

I found the interface quite intuitive, but that's me.... I will post
good howto docs if I run across them.  One thing that is optional but
helpful is to learn STX (structured text) which is the markup language
for plone.  You can also use plain text or html, but stx is pretty
powerful, intuitive, and fast.  This is a pretty good howto
<http://plone.org/documentation/howto/UsingStructuredText>.  Actually,
the whole first section of <http://plone.org/documentation/howto> is
pretty good info for learning how to use it.

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
 > Chad Knepp wrote:
 > 
 > > If you want to mess around you should be able to create news articles,
 > > discussions, comments, etc.  Also check out the search engine.
 > 
 > How do you create a new news article, i.e. a new thread? as opposed
 > to new comments or replies to an existing thread.  Doesn't look
 > like there is a button for this in the news area.

Actually I think it's best to start stuff including news articles in
'my folder' (your user folder).  If you are in your folder there will
be a selection box of different things to add as well as an 'add new
item' tab.  The 'state' tab is the way to make something happen.  You
can 'make private' which hides it, 'submit' which allows someone with
a 'reviewer' role review and approve or reject, 'publish' which
automagically puts news on the news page for example.  Documents that
you create should either be started in the documents folder or be cut
and pasted there.  Currently putting things up for review is optional
because everyone can publish by themselves.  I haven't created a
workflow that would require us to have our material proofread by each
other before it went live, although you can see how this might be a
good idea at some time.

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Chad Knepp
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