[Zope-CMF] What is Lead-in?

[Kent Polk]

On 15 May 2001 12:45:01 -0500, Loren Stafford wrote:
> What was the NewsItem property "Lead-in" intended for. It doesn't seem to be
> used?

In the the news industry, the lead-in behaves somewhat as a
one-sentence abstract of the news article. The CMF somewhat uses
it in the traditional sense, in conjunction with news item lists,
where it is displayed under the title and author. IMO, it ought to
also be included in the NewsItem view as part of the header.

When you look at the new item through the management interface,
the lead-in text is inserted into the item description. Or, if you
look at newsitem_edit_form (skins):

<th class="TextField"> Lead-in </th>
 <td class="TextField">
 <textarea name="description:text" rows="10"
 cols="65">&dtml-description;</textarea>

you see that the NewsItem skins simply change the name of 'Description'
to 'Lead-in'.