[Zope-CMF] plone / CMF question: documents and folders get stored named <date-time...>

Sidnei da Silva sidnei@x3ng.com.br
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:24:02 -0300


On Terça 23 Julho 2002 13:59, Dirk Junghanns wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm new to CMF/Plone (using CMF13b2/Plone10a).
|
| I just noticed that documents or folders created via plone interface get
| timestamps as IDs. If I upload via WebDAV into my member folder, IDs will
| be equal to original filenames. If I use both methods to create content it
| soon becomes difficult to maintain overview in my folder.
|
| Is there a way to get the ID field back into plone edit forms and disable
| the auto-assignment of timestamp-like IDs?
|
| Of course I can rename documents, but this is not acceptable after each
| document creation.
|
| Cheers,

To get the ID field back into forms, go to "preferences" (next to "my stuff" 
on the user bar) and choose to show the IDs for your user.

To customize the autoID that plone generates, customize the createObject 
script on the skin.

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