[Zope-CMF] PortalFolders - 2 questions

[Joseph Wayne Norton]

Hello.

I have 2 questions regarding PortalFolders.

 - using FTP - is it possible to specify or turn on/turn off behavior
   of whether a normal Zope Folder or a CMF PortalFolder is created
   due to a mkdir command?  My current understanding is that a Zope
   folder will always be created.  Documents seem to behave as
   expected.

 - allowed_content_types - what is the best way to support this
   behavior on an instance basis?  Currently, this behavior seems to
   be supported only on a class basis.

   For example, I would like to limit certain PortalFolders to only
   allow for "Images" to be added.  I can think of 2 ways of doing
   this currently.

   a. create a new PortalFolder-like python class whose base class is
      PortalFolder ... such as PortalImageFolder.  Then use the
      type_tool to set allowed_content_types only to "Image".

   b. after adding a PortalFolder set a property such as
      "self.allowed_content_types_on_an_instance_basis = (Image,)"

      modify the invokeFactory skin to check for this property hanging
      off of each PortalFolderish object and filter based on this
      property as well.

thanks,

- joe n.