[Zope-CMF] Making document editing == news item editing

Frank McGeough fm@synchrologic.com
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:11:25 -0400


Beautiful. Thank you. I'll write up all these steps and post it on the
cmf.zope.org. It works great now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tres Seaver" <tseaver@palladion.com>
To: "Frank McGeough" <fm@synchrologic.com>
Cc: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Making document editing == news item editing


> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Frank McGeough wrote:
>
> > okay. So I modified my Factory Based Type Information for News Item
under
> > portal_types. I changed the Actions so that I had document_view and
> > document_edit_form and the Factory Method in product to addDocument.
> > Awesome! Now news item editing is the same as document editing. The
problem
> > is that news items are no longer news items. They are documents. That
is,
> > they don't show up news_box and in every other aspect they act just like
> > documents...except that it shows a little News item icon beside them in
the
> > user folder. How do I change the meta search to show up these "document
News
> > Items"?
>
> 'news_box' is broken;  it is searching for 'meta_type', rather than
> 'Type'::
>
>
>   <dtml-in "portal_catalog.searchResults( meta_type='News Item'
>                                         , sort_on='Date'
>                                         , sort_order='reverse'
>                                         , review_state='published'
>                                         )" size="10">
>
> shoule be (you can customize it to get this)::
>
>   <dtml-in "portal_catalog.searchResults( Type='News Item'
>                                         , sort_on='effective'
>                                         , sort_order='reverse'
>                                         , review_state='published'
>                                         )" size="10">
>
> Note that I munged the 'sort_on' key, as well, to use a "real"
> date field;  you may not like this, however.  I will check in the
> fix ('Type' instead of 'meta_type') this morning.
>
> Tres.
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