[Zope-CMF] newbie confusion over admin via manager API versus portal API

[Jeffrey_Franks@i-o.com]

Only a newbie would ask a question like this.

I'm confused regarding the manager API versus the portal API and the
behaviors of each.

When I'm in manager API, there is no selection for adding a "Portal Folder".
When I add "Folder" from manager API, I don't see it from the portal API.
The icons look the same from the manager interface, but the objects they
represent are different. This leads to part of the confusion.

So, I end up adding a "Portal Folder" from the portal API (so that it is
viewable),
and then put a 'dtml method' named index_html inside it from the manager API
(because I can't or don't know how to do that from the portal API). This doesn't
seem right.

However,
when I do that, I loose the skinning and content fills the entire page, even
when I
declare <dtml-var standard_html_header> and <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
inside index_html.

I'm must be doing something wrong, and I'm just not getting it.
Can someone help me get on track?

zope 2.5.1
CMF-1.3-beta1

-- jlf