[Zope-CMF] CMF Thoughts & Ideas (long!)

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On 4/23/01 9:37 PM, "Adrian Madrid" <aemadrid@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> (N.B it would great if you could add properties to
>> Portal Documents, Images,
>> NewsItems, etc, through the ZMI, as you can
>> currently with Portal Folders.
>> You can store your butchered objects in a folder in
>> Skins, then just use the
>> manage-addClone/manage_editProperties method to
>> create new ones -
>> quick-and-dirty way to create products for
>> non-programmers! Alternatively,
>> perhaps in the future you could do this through
>> portal_types? ...create a
>> new type, based on an existing one -which you can
>> already do- and then add a
>> few extra properties and give it a suitable
>> meta-type name?)
> 
> I think this could REALLY jumpstart the creation of
> CFM sites. I believe that many times this is the only
> reason to come up with your own products: adding a few
> special properties and create a new content type based
> on an old type.

You could also make ZClass subclasses of the basic CMF Objects and define
your own property sheets and behavior (Python Scripts).  The TypesTool
(portal_types) is already coming dangerously close to recreating ZClasses,
and I don't think it should get any closer without some *deep* understanding
of the problem trying to be solved.

Jeffrey P Shell, jeffrey@Digicool.com
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