I have a senario whereby I have created a website content managment system in Notes… I allow users to create content in only the content portion of a webpage and I control the skin of the site (the look and feel & navigation) that wraps around the content area. The content portion of the page is created via a rtf field on a notes document as either html or notes wysiwyg. Ideally I would like to be able to use dreamweaver/frontpage as the webpage authoring tool (because of its wysiwyg content creation capabilities) for the content portion of the page and I am thinking of a way to either port the code from dreamweaver into the rtf field or better yet be able to launch dreamweaver or use it as embedded in the notes rtf field. I am thinking along the lines of ole in concept but I don’t know if it is supported and I have read about WebDAV but I am not sure that that is the right solution for this. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Subject: w.r.t. WebDAV
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As a public standard, WebDAV doesn’t support IBM’s proprietary LTPA scheme, so session authentication is out of the question on any server running WebDAV.
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The only things that Domino serves over WebDAV are file resources. (All three kinds; image and css resources are file resources.) This means that
a) Your idea of content being created inside a single RTF is out, but the ability to upload/edit entire html pages as files directly through DreamWeaver is in.
b) There’ll be no capability of using subdirectories to manage/organize the files within a single Domino db, but a suitable combination of databases in nested subdirectories and mapping documents can make it behave that way.
c) Image files uploaded to a Domino db via WebDAV will appear in the Designer client’s File Resources view, but since all three kinds of file resources are accessible via the same URL syntax regardless of which of the three file resource views the Designer displays them in, that doesn’t matter.
- Most fundamentally, though, because WebDAV makes it possible for the remote designer to create any html files they want in the db to which you’ve given them Designer access, that takes away your ability to limit what they can do, and structure their work so that it fits within the design framework you’ve built. So it’s a great way to give an html-based site designer complete carte blanche w.r.t. site design, but it’s a lousy way to provide content managers an easy way to modify content with a minimal need for design skills/responsibility. So I agree that WebDAV isn’t the solution you’re looking for.
Subject: Question about Dreamweaver and the Notes Client…
Out of curiousity, have you ever been able to find a solution for this?