[Zope-PTK] Categorization, ZTopics and Portal Functionality

[Monty Taylor]

Chris Withers wrote:

> Monty Taylor wrote:
>
> > I've been fairly vacant in my attention to this list recently (vactions
>
> Yeah, me too :-)
>
> > Any thoughts, comments, ideas? I'm going to start working, but if anyone
> > sees and landmines or is already working on something similar, please
> > let me know.
>
> How's it getting on?
>

Well, I tried making ZCategory a normal Portal Object, so that to create a
new Category and ensure its place in the heirarchy, one had only to create a
ZCategory and Categorize it. I canned that (although I still like the
cleanliness) because I don't think it makes much sense to have the Categories
live in a user's folder. They really are system objects.

So then I went for the simple approach of making a Portal Aware ZTopic and
adding it in the appropriate context. I had other problems with this one, but
canned it because I realized I was trying to create a meta-management
interface so that portal managers wouldn't have to see the management
interface.

So for the moment, I'm just working on adding Portal Aware ZTopics in the
management interface. The key difference is that each Portal Object (this is
the part I'm coding right now) gets a list of available Categories from the
Portal Catalog.

I would imaging you to be working on something similar for Swishdot. Any
luck? (Or have I missed something in my chucked attempts I should re-look
at? )

Thanks,
Monty