[NGO] Plone MultiSite?

[Paul Everitt]

Andrew Hatton can give more detail, but Plone Multisite has some  
interesting features, such as bulk publishing/retracting a piece of  
content and all the items it references.

--Paul

On Jul 3, 2006, at 1:16 AM, Shaun Hills wrote:

> I missed Ploneability, but I noticed there was some discussion  
> around Plone
> MultiSite. Having had a bit of a look at the code and docs (ahem ;)  
> it seems
> like it's a product for pushing content from a central "editing"  
> instance out to
> multiple other Plone sites. Is this a fair summary? Is there  
> anything else it
> does that I'm missing?
>
> I have a reason for asking. We at NHS CFH run a fairly large but  
> ultimately
> quite bog-standard Plone site. And we're starting to hit two  
> limitations of
> Plone's out-of-the-box publishing model. Firstly content is all "up  
> front" on
> your site, and live the minute the owner hits "save". Risky. So we  
> made a minor
> customisation to default all new content to "Private"; at least  
> then if it's WIP
> it can't be found by users. But this has an unfortunate side-effect  
> when users
> forget to publish their content - they'll create a hyperlink to it  
> which will
> work just fine when they're logged in. But as soon as an anonymous  
> user hits the
> link, they're prompted for a login.
>
> I think we need to get away from the current system and put in some  
> kind of
> staging or editing --> production propagation mechanism. Is this  
> the kind of
> problem MultiSite is intended to solve? Or should I be looking at  
> one of the
> other staging frameworks?
>
> - Shaun
>
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