RE: Code and design sharing (was: Using a file upload form to add content to slide)

[James Higginbotham <jh...@betweenmarkets.com>]

Ryan,

Over the past couple of months of actively using Slide, and even a few
months prior while doing preliminary analysis, that there are a number
of projects going on using Slide to accomplish the same thing - a CMS
system. I have a proposal to make, but I'm not quite sure yet how to
execute - ideas are greatly welcomed.

I'd like to see one or more of the following things take shape soon for
the benefit of all:

1) Construct a method of sharing ideas, design, and maybe even code in
the process of generating a java-based, Slide backed CMS solution that
can take on the likes of PHP/script-kiddie solutions that are out there
2) If any code is generated that is to be shared, we can determine if it
makes sense to do a GPL and keep it out of commercial solutions (I know
some folks here are doing commercial or closed source so not sure if
this makes sense) or an LGPL
3) Any code changes required to the Slide codebase can be conquered and
submitted easier and faster without duplication as we each tackle our
own projects (i.e. divide and conquer to meet the common needs of our
projects if bugs or refactorings need to be made to Slide)

These things could be accomplished using the following techniques, in
any combination:

1) A WIKI tool for publishing ideas, until such time as we can host our
own CMS platform (eat our own dog food) if we decide to put together a
CMS-reference implementation
2) A Sourceforge project for sharing code via CVS, tasks, tools, etc. 
3) This mailing list (could be as simple as that) to exchange thoughts,
ideas, etc. 

Thoughts, ideas, feedback?! Anyone from the Slide team have any
suggestions as to how we may be able to leverage the apache
cvs/tools/etc. to make this happen rather than kicking off yet another
project on sf?

James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan McDonough [mailto:rmcdonough@mac.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:07 PM
> To: 'Slide Users Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: Using a file upload form to add content to slide
> 
> 
> Sounds like your trying to do what I'm trying to do :) But I 
> will have to do all the things you were suggesting that I 
> strip out since this content will be accessed by various 
> WebDAV clients including Mac OS X, and MS Web Folders and 
> Office. It's for an HR firm that want to take resumes in Word 
> form over the web. Then they need to process them internally. 
> I'd like to keep it simple for the web user so that they can 
> just deal with a form and not have to introduce new UI 
> issues. I'd be interested in knowing how you make out and 
> likewise, I'll let you know how I fare.
> 
> Ryan-
> 
> On 3/21/03 2:46 PM, "James Higginbotham" 
> <jh...@betweenmarkets.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > My guess is that for allowing a web form to push data in, you will 
> > need to perform the necessary steps to obtain the multipart data 
> > (struts has some helpers there, plus Kevin's email link as 
> well), then 
> > you have to use the SlideToken and NamespaceAccessToken for the 
> > currently logged-in user to create a new document using the Slide 
> > low-level APIs( Lock, Content, etc). If you want to 
> maintain revision 
> > history and ensure that what you put is in properly formed 
> for later 
> > access via external WebDAV/DeltaV clients, you will need to 
> replicate 
> > the logic inside the xxxMethod.java source code inside the webdav 
> > server portion of the slide src tree. I'm in the process of 
> doing this 
> > as well for my project and just last night was able to push text 
> > content from a textarea back into slide - just need to get 
> it making 
> > revisions rather than updating the code of an existing revision. If 
> > you don't care about external clients, you can probably use that 
> > source as a guide but strip things out that are more MS web folder 
> > workarounds, etc. etc. and concentrate on the work you want to do 
> > specifically.
> > 
> > It has been taking me several hours per step, where a step 
> = learning 
> > how to properly lock all nodes assoc with an existing doc, 
> update some 
> > content, create a new revision, unlock the node after editing, etc. 
> > Much of the code is bound the the servlet API for external HTTP 
> > clients, so making it operate from a struts action or simliar 
> > situation is a little time consuming right now.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > James
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ryan McDonough [mailto:rmcdonough@mac.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:25 AM
> >> To: 'Slide Users Mailing List'
> >> Subject: Using a file upload form to add content to slide
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I know it is possible to browser nodes in a web with slide. I'm 
> >> curious to know if it is possible to add a file to a slide store 
> >> using an HTML form with a file upload? Is it as simple as 
> setting the 
> >> form's method to PUT or is the process much more involved? 
> Any help 
> >> on this matter is greatly appreciated as I have no idea as 
> to where 
> >> to start.
> >> 
> >> Ryan-
> >> 
> >> --
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> >> 
> >> 
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