[Zope-CMF] New Portal types question

[Andrew Sawyers]

Use contentValues(Filter={'Type': ('XYZ',)})
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Carlson" <khcarlso@bellsouth.net>
To: "zope-cmf group" <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: [Zope-CMF] New Portal types question


> I am creating a new portal type using the following method:
>
>  - From the portal_types 'contents' view, I add a new instance of a
> "Factory-based type information" object.
>  - I give the object an ID and use CMFCore:PortalFolder as the default
type
> information.
>
> After the object is created I click on the instance and edit the
properties
> so that the Title and Metatype fields are "XYZ".
>
> It seems that the type is created ok.  The problem occurs when trying to
> iterate over ONLY the new object type...
>
> I changed the default skin to iterate over items of type "XYZ" instead of
> type "Portal Folder" and nothing is displayed.  If I am reading the
> documentation correctly it says that the expression "objectValues" takes
as
> its argument a meta-type, however, "XYZ" never returns anything.  If I
> change the dtml-in statement back to "Portal Folder", the objects, and
many
> others are also returned.  Example:
>
> The statement below returns nothing
> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('XYZ')" sort="Title">
>
> This one returns 'XYZ' and others
> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('Portal Folder')" sort="Title">
>
> What can be changed in the type information to get the first statement to
> work?  If that isn't possible, how can I filter the first statement on the
> metatype field?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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