[CPS-users] Adding contacts database

[Mário Valente]

On 1/12/07, Mário Valente <mvalente at itij.mj.pt> wrote:
>>   Right. Why should I need an aditional piece of software to  manage?
>
>Well, if you want to store it in an SQL database, then you need an SQL database to store it in.
>

  Thats why I'm using Gadfly. Within Zope.




>>   What happens with the next table of stuff? Should a  programmer be 
>> needed to do this kind of basic stuff?

>It is "basic" in the sense that it's simple to do, but at the same time is very non-basic, as it's >quite unusual. After five years in the CMS world this is the first case I've seen of somebody wanting >>to import an excel sheet of contacts. 
>>

  I wont even comment. In 5 years in the CMS world there's never
 been a need to bulk load formatted data? Of any kind? Be it contacts
 or address lists or people lists? You do it by hand every time? I was
 expecting a more credible answer than this.




>>   I'm trying to resist the RoR pull.. but with the Zope  "complicate 
>> as much as possible strategy"

>Well, if what you want is a HTML interface to a bunch of SQL tables, I don't think you should resist >it. If you want a CMS, then you should resist it. CPS and RoR don't compete with each other. They >are quite different technologies solving what is essentially very different problems.
>


  I want a CMS. I am resisting it. I just want a better way to 
 define a new content type (be it CPSSchema or Archetype) and
 load previous data automatically, instead of inserting thousands
 of records by hand just because "a CMS is not na HTML interface
 to a bunch of SQL tables". I know its not, I dont want it to be; I
 just need to migrate thousands of records into a CMS and cant seem
 to find a simple (not even automatic) way to do it. I've even looked
 at Zope's export/import XML formats but I'm not even going into that
 mess....

   -- MV