[Zope-CMF] Folders and workflow status?

[Tres Seaver]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 03:00, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Carl Rendell wrote:
> > It looks as though there is already a bug logged in the collector for this:
> > 
> > http://collector.zope.org/CMF/4
> > 
> > Is this why folders now have a 'Status: private' displayed as part of 
> > the actions box? I'm sure there are issues other than cosmetic to 
> > resolve. The most egregious issue for me is that the 'Publish' link is 
> > displayed, but will fail if a user attempts to publish the folder. Kind 
> > of a bad loop for the user.
> 
> A possible workaround is to leave empty the workflow for 'Folder' in 
> portal_workflow (the fact that 'Folder' appears there, while useful for 
> this workaround, is confusing, since PortalFolder isn't neither 
> catalogged --it explicitly redefines reindexObject as pass-- nor 
> "workflowable", and that got my head banging for a while -- see my 
> recent messages about it).

This bug was masked by others, whose repair by Florent surfaced it. 
Essentially, Luca's "workaround" is the correct solution;  Folders
(likewise Topics) shouldn't be participating in workflow.  We should
probably add a note to the "Upgrading" section of the INSTALL.txt,
warning people to remove the workflow bindings for Folder and Topic.

Tres.
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