For one, it doesn't seem possible to move an object more up to the root (or anywhere not *below* the folder the object was cut/copied from). This is partially due to the fact that the __cp (clipboard) cookie has it's path set to it's originating folder. I.e move /foo/bar/a to /foo/a or to /blah/a
Clipboards seem to be local to the folder. This may be related to the nature of cookies (with their path set to that the path of that folder), I'm not sure. If you cut 'a' in /foo/bar, then cut 'b' from / and try to paste 'b' in /foo/bar, you'll end up with '/foo/bar/a' again. And as it is not possible to clear your clipboard (esp which opera, which cannot clear cookies), it's very difficult to move objects in these circumstances.
Is there any clear reason zope behaves this way? Are there any problems to be expected if the path of the __cp cookie is set to /, so your clipboard is visible everywhere? Could ZCatalog aware objects cause problems?
I'd be willing to spend some time on fixing this if there's nothing that it would break.
Hmm - we can't just set it to '/', because some people have multiple Zope instances mapped to a domain (ex: my.com/foo/ and my.com/bar/ are aliased to two different Zope instances). I think what we need to do is figure out the "virtual" root url and set the cookie with that path. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations www.digicool.com