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Tuesday 20 December 2005 3:50:21 am
Hey, if anybody is taking requests:
;-) I'd love to have proper user tutorials on:
-- creating a multiplexor workflow
as an example, something like:
approve-publish ->
notify-all-users-in-group-X-after-publish ->
hide-oldest-item-in-folder-where-just-published
-- creating independant multiple notification events
for example permitting users to select a weekly digest for content A
AND a daily digest for contents B and C,
AND running a daily digest for content D for all users in group X
-- sorting user registration requests
for example automatically placing registations that only request subscriptions into group X which already has roles set, and all other registration requests into group Y which requires administrative approval and reassignment. These are 3 things that pretty much any non-trivial site will require, and for which I have yet to find any good documentation. The eZ gurus deal with this every project and will undoubtedly just re-use code from thier own librarys. But anybody fresh to eZ (a non-trivial number) will have to re-invent the wheel so to speak, and ends up fighting a rather frustrating battle because of the lack of any information other than the most rudimentary in nature.
Yes, there are examples. Workflows for instance have a very clear example of how to install approval for content publishing. Lovely. Lovely, that is, if there will only ever be one instance of which content is to be published in which section and approved by which users. As soon as needs change to even this simple scenario:
User A must approve Content Class A in Section A, and
User B must approve Content Class A in Section B
the example becomes unusable. I'm sure any 5 posters here could spend 10 minutes typing and we'd suddenly have several dozen such examples. If there will never be extensive user documentation offered by the company eZ (regardless of the reasoning) then perhaps it should be offered by the community eZ. I personally already look forward to making my contributions, but that is a good quarter year away. At the moment I have horrid deadlines, angry employers, high blood pressure, no documentation, and half a dozen problems that I am certain have been solved cleanly by about 100 different people in the last 18 months.
Andy
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