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Is ezPublisher a good fit for this project?

Monday 04 October 2010 4:11:06 pm - 3 replies

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Sandra Parente

Tuesday 05 October 2010 12:45:54 am

Hi Jack,

I think I can give you some advices about eZ Publish in a state/government enviroment. I have build a few web portals with eZ Publish for counties and towns and users were very satisfied by this CSM. The user editing toolbar now makes it more easy to publish, and they need just a couple of hours of training to use it quickly.

The big work is in the back. First you have to provide the right structure, linux apache php and mysql is the best low cost solution, just follow the requirements.

Then you have to build specific object classes for police reports, recordings of trials, etc. which is not so difficult if you learn how to adapt the existing classes. Workflows will manage the collaborative editing with messages and alerts.

Finally you have to learn how to setup roles and policies, since every office has his group and often sub-group with specific editing policies.

Ez Find is a good search engine, but you must know how to speed it up, just read a couple of tutorials.

The basic of eZ Publish can be learnt quickly by reading this book , but generally this CMS is very well documented.

Sandra Parente
www.netbliss.it

Jack Toering

Tuesday 05 October 2010 7:48:08 am

Thank you so much for your reply.
- In this situation, web users and attorneys would be contributing the content rather than employees, so I do not have the opportunity to train them.

- They would file information under /United States/Michigan/Circuit Court/District 20/Case Number 11560. I would have everything down to Circuit Court/District 20/. They would create "Case Number 11560". The creator of the Case Number would also control who gets access. Perhaps when they create the Case Number, it could create sub-directories such as Police Reports, Affidavits, etc. The information they create is theirs to maintain, and control the level of access to whomever they chose.
Is ezPublisher designed to handle this type of scenario?
Thanks!

Sandra Parente

Friday 08 October 2010 6:55:33 am

In my experience the publishing with eZ Publish from website toolbar is really intuitive, people can learn it easily just reading a simple manual with screenshots and description of the activity. On the contrary the control of the access levels is more complex and needs the use of admin interface on an advanced level. I suggest you to install eZ Teamroom extension and test it because I think it can be adapted very well to this scenario: http://doc.ez.no/Extensions/eZ-Teamroom

Cheers.

Sandra Parente
www.netbliss.it

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