[Zope-CMF] Nested Metadata

[Joachim Werner]

This might not be the ultimate solution, but you could store the metadata as
URL-type strings (e.g. Community/Tourism/Africa). So you don't have to
change everything, as URLs are just plain strings that can be stored in a
string field. To select the values, one could use a tree-type selector form
...

Joachim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald L Roeber" <rroeber1@unl.edu>
To: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: [Zope-CMF] Nested Metadata


> What would be the standard way to provide nested subjects through
> portal_metadata?
>
> For instance, there would be main category for subjects and these would
> have several sub-categories.For example:
> 'Community'
>         'Tourism'
>         'Government'
>         . . .
> 'Family'
>         'Childcare'
>         'Education'
>         . . .
>
> I'd like to force them to choose from both a major category and a
> sub-category. Could anyone point me to some resources or examples that I
> could follow?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ronald L. Roeber
> CIT-IANR
> University of Nebraska
> Lincoln, NE 68583  Phone: (402) 472-5630
> email: rroeber1@unl.edu
>