FW: [Zope-CMF] DTML in News/Documents - WHY ??

[Stephen Hindle]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hindle [mailto:shindle@toocool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:47 AM
> To: aem@byu.edu; ptk
> Subject: RE: [Zope-CMF] DTML in News/Documents - WHY ??
> 
> 
> 
> Ah-Ha !!  This sounds like what I want !!
> A fairly easy way to customize on a folder
> by folder basis !!  But how did you 'create'
> the DTML Method (ie - what attributes did 
> you need to give it to stop CMF choking on
> missing attributes, etc etc)
> 
> Mechanix
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adrian Madrid [mailto:aemadrid@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:15 AM
> > To: Stephen Hindle; ptk
> > Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] DTML in News/Documents - WHY ??
> > 
> > 
> > My approach is to use an old dtml method (e.g.
> > index_html) in the portal root folder to gather the
> > articles (custom objects) that should be there. BTW,
> > this method propagates through subfolders by the magic
> > of acquisition letting me write just one (although I
> > can use others if I need a change). The article has a
> > property (e.g. location) that tells me in which folder
> > it should show up and each folder has a property (e.g.
> > ptitle) that matches with the location property. Tada!
> > I'm not finished yet with all this but in the meantime
> > I hope it helps!
> > 
> > --- Stephen Hindle <shindle@toocool.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > The lack of DTML in Documents is causing me problems
> > > with index_html pages.  The 'default' index doesn't
> > > list any of the contents of a folder - you have to
> > > keep hitting 'view contents'.  So I figured I'd just
> > > 
> > > 'supply' a index_html document.  However, this
> > > turned
> > > out to be more difficult then anticipated.  It has
> > > to 
> > > be done from within the CMF management console, as
> > > the 
> > > stock management console 'DTML_Document' type causes
> > > 
> > > CMF to choke.  The CMF based index_html page can't 
> > > display the news box though, nor any other cool
> > > CMF/Zope 
> > > stuff because they're all DTML based.
> > > 
> > > In short, this seems like a step backwards....
> > > Is it really a good thing not to allow DTML ?
> > > Could a new content type "DTML Document" be added
> > > to CMF ?
> > > Is there some other method for customizing the look
> > > of a 
> > > site ?
> > > 
> > > Mechanix
> > > 
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> > =====
> > ---------------------------
> > Adrian Esteban Madrid
> > Benson Institute, Webmaster
> > Brigham Young University
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> > adrian_esteban@madrid.com
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