Newbie Question: Will eZ Work with This Scenario

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Philip Bishop	Monday 19 June 2006 9:22:23 am Hello, I manage a website for a non-profit that works with the homeless. One of the program directors wants to have access to a password-protected area of the site where she can post news, calendar info, perhaps photos and which volunteers, via login capability, can access remotely. Can eZ do this? And if so, can it do it in a way for users who expect the PC to opeate as easily as a toaster? One final thought. It would also be good if someone, as a "super admin," had ultimate control of all activity on the site. Thank you.
Ludovic André	Sunday 25 June 2006 5:29:39 am Hi, yes, it can of course work this way. One of the main "feature" of eZp is that you can customize it the way you want to have it. It's not easy to do that in every cases, but it's possible. You could then setup a simplified interface for those volunteers, with very limited functionnalities, but enough to do what they have to do. If you want to stick to the default interface, you'll (IMHO) not really meet your first constraint: "can it do it in a way for users who expect the PC to opeate as easily as a toaster?", as the default interface is way too much complicated for a lambda user... Finally, the superadmin could access this default interface to manage the entire site. But there are a few questions which you'll have to think about, like "do I want a validation system before publishing", for exemple. Ludovic André

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Monday 19 June 2006 9:22:23 am

Hello,

I manage a website for a non-profit that works with the homeless. One of the program directors wants to have access to a password-protected area of the site where she can post news, calendar info, perhaps photos and which volunteers, via login capability, can access remotely.

Can eZ do this? And if so, can it do it in a way for users who expect the PC to opeate as easily as a toaster?

One final thought. It would also be good if someone, as a "super admin," had ultimate control of all activity on the site.

Thank you.

Ludovic André

Sunday 25 June 2006 5:29:39 am

Hi,

yes, it can of course work this way.

One of the main "feature" of eZp is that you can customize it the way you want to have it. It's not easy to do that in every cases, but it's possible.

You could then setup a simplified interface for those volunteers, with very limited functionnalities, but enough to do what they have to do.

If you want to stick to the default interface, you'll (IMHO) not really meet your first constraint: "can it do it in a way for users who expect the PC to opeate as easily as a toaster?", as the default interface is way too much complicated for a lambda user...

Finally, the superadmin could access this default interface to manage the entire site.
But there are a few questions which you'll have to think about, like "do I want a validation system before publishing", for exemple.

Ludovic André

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:15:08
Script start
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Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:15:08
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:15:08
Module end 'content'
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Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.0116 sec
Peak memory usage	2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

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Script start	0.0000	0.0045	588.2578	151.2266
Module start 'layout'	0.0045	0.0021	739.4844	36.6797
Module start 'content'	0.0066	0.0035	776.1641	90.0469
Module end 'content'	0.0100	0.0015	866.2109	29.9922
Script end	0.0115		896.2031

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0022	18.9040	14	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0010	8.4348	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0006	5.3481	1	0.0006
Mysqli_queries	0.0021	17.7692	3	0.0007
Looping result	0.0000	0.0867	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0012	10.1	1	0.0012
Template load	0.0009	8.1872	1	0.0009
Template processing	0.0002	1.8363	1	0.0002
Override
Cache load	0.0007	5.6865	1	0.0007
General
dbfile	0.0002	2.0097	8	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0598	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs