[Zope-CMF] Why is the news editing different from doc editing?

[Frank McGeough]

Sorry it took awhile to get back to this but can you clarify "delete
addNewsItem from the factory method"?
Are you talking about the contentConstructors array in __init__.py in
CMFDefault and does that mean changing the NewsItem.addNewsItem item to
NewsItem.addDocument?

> In its primeval form, the NewsItem class was supposed to be a
> "short & sweet" Document, intended primarily to drive interfaces
> like the 'news_box' and 'recent_news' methods.  It allows editing
> both the "lead paragraph", which is the DublinCore.Description,
> along with the body of the story.  The rationale was that the
> Description was often displayed on "summary" interfaces, and so
> needed to be "easier" to edit with the content.
>
> As it stands today, the only *substantive* distinction between
> NewsItem and Document is the signature of their 'edit' methods;
> perhaps you would be better off deleting the 'addNewsItem' from
> the "NewsItem" type object's factory method and replacing it with
> 'addDocument'.
>
> Tres.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tres Seaver" <tseaver@palladion.com>
To: "Frank McGeough" <fm@synchrologic.com>
Cc: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Why is the news editing different from doc editing?


> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Frank McGeough wrote:
>
> > CMF 1.1, Zope 2.3.3
> > Just curious as to why news editing is different from doc editing. In
doc
> > editing I can tell the users to write their stuff in Microsoft Word and
use
> > their conversion to HTML and upload it --- or use structured text. Both
of
> > these options are o.k. for my users. But for the news item, the editing
form
> > is different. Their is no radio button to switch between structured text
&
> > HTML and their is no opportunity to upload. I understand that I can
modify
> > the news edit form myself but I'd like to understand the motivation of
the
> > originators.
>