Thanks for all the responses. He he... I should have known better, though. Of the first three responses from Anthony, Michel, and Kevin, I got 3 totally different responses. If I had known more about XML, I probably would have used that approach, but I'm gonna focus on Zope for the moment. And of the other two, I chose to use ZClasses simply because I felt a non-Python person would have a better chance of fixing the site in the future. Still, I've added some Python routines when my novice DTML skills drag a 1 minute function into taking 30. So I've gotten my Publication class written and it works - but minus a few features. 1. The main problem is that I haven't been able to get ZCatalog to search my author list (a line property) correctly. I can search on any other property accept this one. My feeling is that it is treating the entire list as a single property instead of breaking the list items out as individual authors. Does anyone have any insight into this? For the moment, I have a python function that searches the author list. Simple, but I need to figure out how to do it in ZCatalog. 2. Also, I haven't figured out how to make a selection property using ZClasses. I read a post about adding a selection_list (or something like that) property to the propertysheet. This worked, but the selection_list property was also visible on my objects property sheets - not too pretty. I wanted to have multiple selection list also, but this seemed impossible. For the moment, I've hard coded the list in DTML. Any better way? thanks for everyone's help, eric <02bc01beda6e$262f3bc0$8342109-@duke.edu> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/?start=8850
Hello,
Forgive me if this is a double post - I sent it to zope@egroups.com , and it never appeared in the posts as far as I could tell.
I'm pretty comfortable with Python, but new to Zope. We're trying to figure out the best way to set up an academic web site that has a list of publications on it. Each publication has several authors, a description, etc. It will also have a pdf and perhaps a postcript copy of the article. We need to be able to search the author list. I'd like to create a PubClass that, when it displays itself looks like:
"Some silly paper" IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation Description: Some rubbish about how great the silly paper is. Authors: Eric Jones, Larry Carin, William Joines PDF: link_to_pdf_file_object (size) PS: link_to_ps_file_object (size)
I'd like the Add form to have places for adding all the basic properties. The paper title, journal name, and description are pretty straight forward I think. The authors are a little more troubling. I'd like to make them a list of tuples:
[ (first_name,last_name), (first_name,last_name),...]
to facilitate searching for a particular author (so that only Larry Carin's papers are displayed on his page). Is there a way to do this sort of thing with ZClasses? Also, I want the Add form to have places to browse for the pdf and ps files - much like a Zope File object - and then add these files to the PubClass object.
Is this best done by creating a class in python or with the ZClass interface?
thanks, eric
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