-----Original Message----- From: Jason Spisak [mailto:webmaster@mtear.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 2:25 PM To: Michel Pelletier Subject: Re: Catalog

Michel,

You use catalog_object. hat is the difference between that and manage_catalogObject?

manage_catalogObject wants a list of urls, which it then resolves itself into objects (the object are needed by the indexes). When it resolved the object, it then called catalog_object to catalog the actual object with it's unique id (which in this case is the URL). catalog_object needs only the object and the unique id, which is how we used it here. It makes things simpler. manage_catalogObject is really meant to be just a management interface to adding objects, catalog_object is meant to be the external hook for objects to catalog themselves. -Michel

Jason Spisak webmaster@mtear.com

Michel Pelletier wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Jason Spisak [mailto:jason@mtear.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 9:43 AM To: michel@digicool.com Subject: Re: Catalog

Michel,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I tried the blah namespace force, but I got this traceback

Hmm.. Ok I looked deeper into our Portal Stuff, but it's a

but complex.

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basicly we have a Findable class with the following external method:

def index_object(self): """A common method to allow Findables to index themselves.""" try: self.SiteIndex.catalog_object(self, self.url()) except: pass

(our catalog is called SiteIndex)

Then, in the constructor for your ZClass (making sure your ZClass subclasses the Findable base ZClass; in this example it's a NewsItem) Use the 'index_object'

Note that we use SiteIndex and index_object in our examples, but these are holdovers. You should use Catalog and index_object, the more generic terminology.

<!--#var standard_html_header-->

<!--#with "NewsItem.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)"-->

<!--#call "propertysheets.Findables.manage_changeProperties( REQUEST)"--> <!--#call "propertysheets.Basic.manage_changeProperties( REQUEST)"-->

<!--#call index_object-->

<!--#/with-->

<!--#call "RESPONSE.redirect( URL2+'/manage_main')"-->

<!--#var standard_html_footer-->

-Michel

-- Jason Spisak Director Implementation/Development Masterson, Tate & Associates 6151 West Century Boulevard #928 Los Angeles, CA 90045 http://www.mtear.com