[daisy] Content Mgmt across locales

[Marc Portier]

Rucha Gokhale wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I'm trying to test scenarios in Daisy to see if it suits our purpose.
> 
> Here is one of the scenarios that I need help with:
> 
> Scenario - Developer updates document in 1 locale - change should be
> consumed across all related locales; change should also trigger workflow
> to alert locale specific content managers to update language of the change.
> 
> Can Daisy handle this? Please advise.
> 

First off: Note that typically locale specific content managers will
need to actively "label" the change as significant: if you do this
automatically on each save then you might wake up people for only a
silly typo/grammar fix. (only the content manager knows that substantial
'to be translated' change has been made)

Anyway, I suggest you take a look at the new workflow component in Daisy
2.0-dev (svn trunk) the 'labeling' mentioned above would there be
'starting a new workflow'

More info here:
http://cocoondev.org/daisydocs-2_0/g2/350.html
(those docs are work in progress, do check the mail-archives as well,
and just dive into the samples in svn-trunk)


If 2.0 is out of reach, then you'll need to do your own coding based on
 1.5.1.  You can do some smart stuff with querying, and maybe adding
some custom fields, but I'm pretty sure it's not to be compared with how
the workflow module allows to handle things)

> Also, if there are any user manuals available for Daisy, please let me know.

You do know about the official docs right? (I admit they are more
administrator/developer oriented)

http://cocoondev.org/daisy/342.html


for end-users we currently have some screencasts available

http://svn.cocoondev.org/dist/daisy/movies/



regards,
-marc=
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