[Zope-CMF] Re: adding portal content to non portal folders

[Tres Seaver]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, tav wrote:

> >>>>> TS == "Tres Seaver" <tseaver@digicool.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Me> btw, what happened to the CMF Skins competition?
> 
>     TS> A tsunami of consulting work blew my "stack";  this
>     TS> will serve as notice to the effect that all initial
>     TS> submitters (two, I think), get the t-shirt.  I'll put a
>     TS> NewsItem on the dogbowl to this effect today.
> 
> dang! any another similar competition likely to happen soon?
> 
> i would like a t-shirt ;p
> 
> > and is further info available on the CMFWiki development?
> 
>     TS> I'll need to check, but I believe we will have a
>     TS> releasable CMFWiki product this week.
> 
> sweet.
> 
> i would be very interested in seeing further info on the dev tho ;p
> 
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement/C
> MFWiki says very little :/

Chris isn't ready to "throw it over the wall" quite yet;  we will
exercise it pretty heavily during the zope.org migration, and then
look at releasing it (I think).

> on a separate note altogether, can you enlighten me as to how i would force
> the CMF to add an object, e.g. an Image to the current folder, using the
> folder_factories method?
> 
> currently, it magically traverses up to the nearest PortalFolder, and adds
> the object... i would like to add portal content to the container object
> instead

Out of the box, the 'folder_factories' DTMLMethod posts to
'invokeFactory', which is being acquired from the nearest enclosing
PortalFolder.  I have just written a unit test which reproduces
the problem you describe;  please go ahead and create a tracker
issue for it:

  http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker

Thanks!

Tres.
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