Plone CMF ZOPE - What supports what?

by Christian Koller — last modified Dec 30, 2008 03:03 PM
This is a first attempt at creating an overview of which part (Plone/CMF/ZOPE) implements which functionality of Plone 3.0
Possible (But has to be created/installed/used) ~
Supported yes

 

What Zope CMF Plone
Access to different Databases LDAP yes yes yes
Adjustable templates on content       yes
Automatic image scaling and thumbnail generation       yes
Automatic previous/next navigation       yes
Caching Services   yes yes yes
Centralization of common resources using Acquisition   yes yes yes
Comment capabilities on any content     yes yes
Content formatting for printing/presentation Present.   ~ yes
Cross-platform   yes yes yes
Cut/copy/paste operations on content   yes yes yes
Dublin Core metadata support     yes yes
Easy-to-use, powerful graphical page editor (Z) ~ ~ yes
Flexible authentication back-end (Z) ~ ~ yes
Flexible navigation and always-updated site maps (Z) ~ ~ yes
Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents   yes yes yes
Hot backup support   yes yes yes
Human-readable URLs Parameter yes yes yes
In-context editing   ~ ~ yes
Inline editing (AJAX)       yes
Link and reference integrity checking       yes
LiveSearch       yes
Multilingual content management LinguaP.     yes
Pervasive RSS feed support (C)   yes yes
Portlets engine (C)   ~ yes
Remote scripting via XML-RPC   yes yes yes
Resource compression (Z) yes yes yes
Rules engine for content       yes
Standard content types       yes
Standardized way to build content objects       yes
Standards & Accessibility compliant (i)   ~ yes
Time-based publishing       yes
Transparent scaling using ZEO   yes yes yes
Versioning, history and reverting content (Z) yes yes yes
Web Application Server with integrated Object Database   yes yes yes
WebDAV and FTP support   yes yes yes
Wiki support (Z) ~ ~ yes
Workflow capabilities (P) yes yes yes
Working Copy support       yes

 

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