[Zope-CMF] content management framework question / musings

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:51:03 -0400


Kent Hoxsey wrote:

> We thought about doing something about the same as you describe, and
> then realized that the effectivity dates in the metadata for the
> portal types makes archiving a skinning issue. Since the items know
> their own expiration, all you need to maintain different 'current' and
> 'archived' views are a pair of skinning methods that search for
> different effectivity windows, and present all objects found. In other
> words, 'current' searches for (start_date<now) and (end_date>now),
> while 'archived' searches for (end_date < now).

BINGO!  You're there!


Tres.
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