zope groups - what is it?

axxackall · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:22 pm Post subject: zope groups - what is it?

I found this ebuild submission in the bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17599

It says:

jfb3 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 242

Groups seems to be for use on top of Silva
"Silva is a completely browser based publication system for creating publications for the web, paper, and other media"

The "groups" you find seem to be for group management (for access and process flow control I assume) with or without LDAP.

Hope that helps. (I know it's all rather vague...)

/J

axxackall · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:53 am Post subject:

"access control" and LDAP make me to think about groups of users.

My own "guessing" list was including: groups of users, groups of text elements (structured text), groups of properties (like attributes in LDAP), groups of files (usually called folders), groups of functions (navigation).

You see how many groups (different types of groups) can be. Now you understand why I've asked my question.

My next question: how are groups different from roles? In Zope we do have roles. What kind of functionality is not possible or is difficult with roles vs groups :?:

jfb3 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 242

I think, it's more how groups are used by Silva for its own processes. (I think.)