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Jan Bengia	Tuesday 05 October 2004 6:58:31 am Hi, I´m quite new to this (technical side of) CMS stuff. I am looking for a good, flexible OpenSource CMS. My favs are typo3 and -- eZ Publish so far. Now I have a bunch of questions...: - Looking at the admin interfaces both of typo3 and ez Publish 3.5 (alpha): It seems like one "Article" (page or whatever) in typo3 consists of any amount of "records" (e.g. headline, text, file-lists, picures...). In ez Publish it seems as if you can only have <i>one</i> "record" plus many childs... is that right? - I think the admin interface is much too complex for most users. Can I restrict the functionality for some roles? So that some guys only get a clean, simple interface - without displaying all the "overhead"... Thats it so far... I would be happy about some hints. Thanks! orbi
Tobias Persson	Tuesday 05 October 2004 7:28:02 am You are right that every 'article/page' or class only can contain the data that has been specified for that class. For example title and image. But when you construct your templates (that tells ez how the page should look), you can also add related objects and childs of the object to be shown on the page. I have an example of my own: The structure: My gadgets (class ProductContainer) - Gadget 1 (class Product) - Price 1 (class Price) - Price 2 (class Price) - Gadget 2 (class Product) - Price 3 (class Price) When I view page My gadgets, I see one page with two Products and three Prices

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Tuesday 05 October 2004 6:58:31 am

Hi,
I´m quite new to this (technical side of) CMS stuff. I am looking for a good, flexible OpenSource CMS. My favs are typo3 and -- eZ Publish so far. Now I have a bunch of questions...:

- Looking at the admin interfaces both of typo3 and ez Publish 3.5 (alpha): It seems like one "Article" (page or whatever) in typo3 consists of any amount of "records" (e.g. headline, text, file-lists, picures...). In ez Publish it seems as if you can only have <i>one</i> "record" plus many childs... is that right?

- I think the admin interface is much too complex for most users. Can I restrict the functionality for some roles? So that some guys only get a clean, simple interface - without displaying all the "overhead"...

Thats it so far... I would be happy about some hints.
Thanks!
orbi

Tobias Persson

Tuesday 05 October 2004 7:28:02 am

You are right that every 'article/page' or class only can contain the data that has been specified for that class. For example title and image.

But when you construct your templates (that tells ez how the page should look), you can also add related objects and childs of the object to be shown on the page.

I have an example of my own:

The structure:

My gadgets (class ProductContainer)
- Gadget 1 (class Product)
- Price 1 (class Price)
- Price 2 (class Price)
- Gadget 2 (class Product)
- Price 3 (class Price)

When I view page My gadgets, I see one page with two Products and three Prices