Im a zope newbie and have startet making a product solely through Python (leaving the management interface behind!). Inside my product object I want to make a folder containing images. My problem is that when I create folders and images through Python it aint visible in the management interface. How to I make them visible?
Objects which are merely attributes of an object won't show up in the ZMI. (It would be a neat trick though.) For the ZMI to see it, it has to be done in a 'folderish' manner. When you have some folderish object you want to add an object to, you say folder.manage_addXXX(id, title, ...) where XXX is the name of the product, and the elipsis is the rest of the arguments. Some products use a non-'manage_' naming convention: check the source/api docs/add form. You'll have to anyway to check the arguments. If you are in a folderish object, you would replace the 'folder' above with 'self'. If you want to know more about this machinery, look at _setObject in ObjectManager. To look into a folderish object, you use the object[Items/Values/Ids] methods, which you probably know about already.
Secund, can someone explain to me what implicit objects are available so Im able to communicate with Zope (I have had a hard time trying to figure out howto communicate with Zope through a Python product - the docs API aint well documented)
I'm not quite sure what you're looking for here, but maybe you want to take a look at the Globals.py and App/*.py, especially Common.py and Product.py. --jcc