On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
1) How can I set standard DTML Document properties (title!) from my constructor? I created constructor form and constructor method, I succesfully prompt for and set all my properties but I do not know how to set properties belonging to DTML Document.
Pass it as an argument to the call that creates the DTML Document.
2) Can I do anything to have single property screen which would behave as original DTML Document property screen but present both original properties and properties belonging to my custom property sheet?
Yep. You should be able to replicate everything the original constructor code does in your own code. Read The Source, Luke <grin>.
3) Can I influence property editing screens (what I want is to increase some edit boxes)?
As far as I know (until Martjin finishes his skinnable support) you can only do that by wholesale replacing the editing screen with your own form. Or by modifying the source.
I created also some classes which do not inherit DTML Document or DTM method. I have questions about such a configuration:
4) Can I do something to have ZCatalog PrincipiaSearch (i.e. full text search) to scan some property of my custom ZClass (say property body from propertysheet Basic)?
You can add that property name as an index, and construct your search form so the search string is submitted to it (see the Advanced ZCatalog Searching HowTo). Or, you could define your own PrincipiaSearchSource method and return whatever value is appropriate. I *think* you should be able to define this as a method of your ZClass, but I've never tried that. I know it works from python <grin>.
5) Can I write index_html method of my custom class so it interpret DTML tags (like dtml-var substitution)?
I'm sure you can, but I don't know how <grin>. But if you are doing that, why not just subclass DTML-Method (or document)?
6) What you, Zope gurus, would do if you were to find all the DTML Documents in some directory tree and remove them, creating instead XXXX Documents (where XXXX Document is some subclass of DTML Document) - and keeping the document id, title, contents and properties without change?
Write an external method to do all the object creation, property copying, and old object deletion.
7) And what if you were to change something a little - say detect that some property belongs to custom propertysheet and put it there instead on putting on standard DTML Document propertysheet?
Easy to do in external method python code.
Regards and thanks in advance for any hints and references
I think my answers are a little bit too cryptic to be immediately useful. Maybe someone else will give specifics, otherwise I hope they serve as useful hints. --RDM