[Zope-CMF] CMF Usabiltiy

[Tim Hoffman]

This is a feature I too wanted, and my solution was to 
to give every object a unique object ID (new metadata field) which 
get's updated if the object is cloned. This Object ID is then
catalogued, and then content which needs links uses the object Id plus a
retrieval method. This way doc's can move anywhere and no broken links.

Also allows work out which documents/content link to a particular
document easily (search body text or some other attribute in the
catalog) for the object ID.

Rgds

Tim


> > An odd thing is that in Zope if you move stuff from folder to folder,
> > links that refer to it break while in a commercial CMS the links would
> > simply carry on working as all the items of content are in a database.
> > But how often is that a real problem?
> 
> * this is actually something that should be addressed.  There are a few
> ways of doing this.  but it probably will require really ugly regex's ;(
> webchecker -- may be able to help.  but I dont see this as a huge problem
> if you can check the links in your website.