[Zope-CMF] A bit of a glitch with FTP PUT

[Tres Seaver]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
 
> I've been hacking on my own variant of PortalFolder, setting it up to be
> smarter about creating items uploaded by FTP.  It all pretty well works,
> actually.  I may have a deployable (or deplorable) "LWN daily" sort of site
> soon.

Excellent!

> Some time, however, went into tracking down one little problem.  I've also
> created my own workflow to reflect how we do things.  It's not too
> different, but, for example, "LWN News" items start out in a "pending"
> state.  We don't make news entries we don't plan to publish.
> 
> Things uploaded by FTP, however, start out in the "private" state.  I've
> finally figured out why: when all of the new item's workflow actions are
> being called, it hasn't yet been entered into its place in the folder
> hierarchy.  So the WorkflowAction instances can not find the workflow tool,
> and the workflow doesn't get informed of what's going on.
> 
> I can work around this, but, to me, a proper solution is non-obvious.  It
> would be nice if FTP uploads that create items didn't circumvent the
> workflow mechanism.  Something for somebody's list, maybe...

Improving our FTP and WebDAV integration story is pretty high on
our list;  we'll look at that this week.

 
> Hmm...looks like beer time,

Indeed.

Tres.
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