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

[Stephen Hindle]

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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