[Zope-CMF] CMF-in-CMF searches

[Tres Seaver]

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 20:56, Heeten wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 13:33, Tres Seaver wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 09:40, Jeffrey_Franks@i-o.com wrote:
> > > The ideal behavior that we need is:
> > > 1) The top-level CMF-site search becomes a federation
> > >      of all the lower level CMF-site content
> > 
> > This part is "science fiction" today;  you would need to write a custom
> > "multi-catalog" object which did this.
> 
> Ok, because I'm probably going to be creating a site that does include
> lots of nesting of CMF portals, how exactly does this work in CMF today?

"Nested portals" aren't directly supported, but can be emulated using
two complementary strategies:

  - Create only one CMF site, and force its tools to allow replacement
    (e.g, change their '__replaceable__' from OFS.ObjectManager.UNIQUE
    to REPLACEABLE.  Then add these tools to the PortalFolders
    representing the "sub-sites".

  - Create a top-level folder and instantiate the "shared" tools there;
    create a CMFSite in that folder per "sub-site", and delete the tools
    which you want to share from the acquired folder.

Tres.
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