[Zope-CMF] Eliminating the /Members directory?

[Kevin Carlson]

Here's how I put the documents in directories other than the member
directory:

First, you'll have to create a new form to collect the document data.  Have
this form post to a Python Script that does the following:

# 1. Create the id
# in this example, I am using a timestamp.
# you may want to get more complex, to
# avoid possible duplications.
ts = str(int(context.ZopeTime()))

# 2. Get a object identifier for the
#    folder in which you want to place
#    the object.  In this example, I place
#    the name of the folder in an attribute
#    of the Portal root called 'docStorage'
dfn = portal.docStorage
docFolder = getattr(context, hfn)

# 3. Create the document and get a
#    handle to the new object
#    The parameter 'docType' is a text
#    representation of the type of object
#    you with to create (e.g., 'File')
context.portal_types.constructContent(docType, docFolder, ts)
newDoc = docFolder[ts]

# 4. Edit the documents metadata
#    These values will most like come from your
#    custom document entry form
newDoc.editMetadata( title=docTitle
                     , description=desc
                     , subject=caseID
                     , contributors=contributor
                     , effective_date=pubDate.strftime("%Y/%m/%d")
                     )

# 5. Add properties, if desired
newDoc.manage_addProperty('test', test, 'text')

#6. If there is a file associated with the document,
#   attach it to the document here.
newDoc.edit(file=filename)

# 7. Let the catalog know about the changed object
newDoc.reindexObject()


Hope that helps!

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: cd@kompetenzplus.de [mailto:cd@kompetenzplus.de]
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:36 AM
To: Kevin Carlson
Subject: AW: [Zope-CMF] Eliminating the /Members directory?


Hi,

I would like to know, how you did that! That posting would be very
interesting.

Christian

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: zope-cmf-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-cmf-admin@zope.org]Im Auftrag
von Kevin Carlson
Gesendet: Samstag, 10. August 2002 06:06
An: David Elfstrom
Cc: Zope-CMF@zope.org
Betreff: RE: [Zope-CMF] Eliminating the /Members directory?


Another option you have is to handle the entire document creation process
yourself.  For example:

 - programmatically create an ID for the document
 - call constructContent
 - call editMetadata after the fact

I have used this strategy to create a "repository" based instance of CMF
that doesn't expose any member-based path information in the URLS.  If you
would like code to go with the rather lame instructions above, please let me
know and I will post them to the list.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-cmf-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-cmf-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
Of Tres Seaver
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:31 PM
To: David Elfstrom
Cc: Zope-CMF@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Eliminating the /Members directory?


On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:42, David Elfstrom wrote:
> I'm wondering what can be done to eliminate the /Members directory in the
CMF.
>
> Basically I want to have people be able to contribute documents, news
> items, articles, and other document types, but I don't want those
documents
> to be stored in the /Members/username -- I want them to be stored in /news
> and /articles and /policies. User accounts should be able to come and go,
> but what the user creates should stay. Does this make sense? Has anyone
> else done this with the CMF, or did you just roll-your-own content
> management system in Zope?

Two things:

  - Turn off member folder creation in the membership tool;  members
    won't have the folder.

  - Give the users the "Owner" local role in the specific folders
    where you want them to add content.

That's it.

Tres.
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