[Zope-CMF] Actions in tools but not in Types

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 17:14, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Heimo Laukkanen writes:
>  > Actions can have expressions, which are TALES expressions and have names 
>  > that are described in Expression.py of CMFCore. Example of that in use 
>  > is from actions tool, where one action is:
>  > 
>  > string: ${folder_url}/folder_contents
>  > 
>  > However this doesn't work in portal_types - eventhough Actions in 
>  > types_tool is presented in a same way. Now my question is, is this for a 
>  > reason - or I am missing something?
> Actions in "portal_types" are quite old, they predate TALES expressions
> and therefore use string actions with magic placeholders.
> Actions in the tools are new and use TALES expressions.
> 
> As it is not easy to switch from string actions to TALES expression
> actions in a completely backward compatible way, I think,
> the "portal_typs" actions have not yet been switched.
> 
> Maybe, you can come up with a proposal?

There is an implementation checked into CVS already on a branch,
'tseaver-ti_as_apb-branch';  we should land it on the head now that 1.3
is released.

Tres.
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