[Actionchix] State of the new website

[jennyw]

Gloria W wrote:
> Mary Gardiner wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Gloria W wrote:
>>  
>>> When an html file is removed, is it possible to leave an empty file
>>> in it's place? It's not elegant, but it wouldn't mess with your
>>> number generation.
>>>     
>>
>> It's not the HTML files, as I understand it. It's that they're all
>> generated from a mailbox copy of that month's mails. I suppose a blank
>> mail could be left in that mailbox, but it sounds from Terri's mail like
>> there just isn't a deterministic mapping between message number X in the
>> mailbox and message number Y in the HTML.
>>   
> Ah, OK.
>
> If the HTML can be edited outside of Plone in some way, I can script
> the URL generation for you. But I know nothing about the command line
> interface of Plone (if there is one), and if HTML can be exported and
> imported via command line script. Can this be done? 

You can get things in and out of Plone, but I'm not sure that's going to
help if the URLs are unpredictable (otherwise, we could solve this with
rewrite rules, too, which would probably be easier). Please correct me
if I've misunderstood what you were suggesting ...

Jen