Is there someway you could roll this into the help system so there is way to get to it from the management screen. Perhaps every object can have two kinds of help when you push the help button. One is the automatically generated help which you have done and then whatever additional help is provided by the product. I have yet to try this product but it is a brillent idea. Like building a autogenerated ZQR into the product itself. I'd really like to see this in a more accessable form.

-----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: Tuesday, 13 February 2001 5:01 AM To: zope@zope.org; zope-announce@zope.org; dieter@sz-sb.de; deddo@sz-sb.de; zimmer@sz-sb.de; m.becker@sz-sb.de; markus@sz-sb.de Subject: [Zope-Annce] [Ann] DocFinder 0.1: ask Zope about its documentation

Recently, I have written several times:

Look at the Zope source for documentation. Zope has quite good source documentation.

However, as the Zope source is huge, this advice is not so easy to follow.

Therefore, I made "DocFinder". This small product allows you to ask any object in your Zope system about its documentation: methods, roles, arguments, documentation strings.

As even simple Zope objects expose hundreds of methods, I made the display a two level interactively explorable tree structure. The first level shows you the classes, the object is build from. Expanding a class will show you the class's attributes.

I think, this product can help you in various ways:

as a Zope programmer:

* learn about the available methods and their arguments * learn about Zope's architecture and building blocks * check for security holes

as a Zope maintainer

* help you to bring interfaces and implementation in line * help you to straighten out some quirks in Zope's implementation * help you to improve Zope documentation * help you to detect potential security risks due to unprotected attributes

More information and download at

URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/DocFinder.html

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