The (somewhat broken) CatalogAware class is used for real-time automatic indexing. Toby Dickenson lately created a BetterCatalogAware that would be a better choice (search the maillist). Or as you say, you can use a cron job. Zope has no scheduler and there are no plans to give it one... a combination of cron and XML-RPC work well in lieu of one. - C David Legg wrote:
Hi all,
I've been playing around with the Zcatalog and it seems quite an interesting product to use. However, I want to be able to reindex objects and pull in new ones if they are there 'automatically' without having to do this manually (obviously not something you'd want to do on a regular basis). Is there some way of doing this in Zope - Interval of update: 2 days - or something like that without having to resort to cron jobs etc. I'm pretty sure there isn't - but is there any plans afoot to do this in the future? Is the new versions of Zope paving the way for this? I seem to remember XML/RSS site summary products having this problem when I looked at them - having to manually update them really is not an option especially when you have a lot of them.
If you are going to do neat stuff with cataloguing and searching then I think automatic indexing is absolutely essential, especially when the Zope blurb says it has it's own built in search engine etc.
Thanks in advance.
David
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