[Zope-CMF] catalog problem after Zope upgrade

Steve Arnold sarnold@arnolds.dhs.org
Wed, 05 Jun 2002 23:52:34 -0700


Tres Seaver wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 17:33, Steve Arnold wrote:
> 
>>Howdy:
>>
>>I recently upgraded Zope from 2.3.3 (with CMF 1.2) to 2.4.3 so I could
>>try the latest CMF stuff.  After I finally got the right version of
>>python and Zope upgraded, I got most things working again (the upgraded
>>squishdot works even better now, with my existing content).  However, my
>>CMF 1.2 portal instance is somewhat wacky now.
>>
>>Besides the calendar breaking, my existing news items are only visible
>>to the management user (everyone else sees "No news is good news").  I
>>tried updating the catalog, flushing the cache, etc, but no joy.
>>
>>Will this problem go away if I upgrade CMF? See my next question in the
>>following post...
> 
> 
> The catalog indexes created under 2.3.3 are brokey under 2.4.x;  the
> simplest fix is to delete your 'portal_catalog', re-add it (using the
> "CMFCore Tool" option on the ZMI add list) and the re-populate your
> catalog using its "Find" tab.
> 
> Somewhat trickier would be to drop and re-add the indexes inside the
> catalog;  you can then just re-index eveything, as the catalog itself
> will still know where all your content is.
> 
> Tres.

Thanks.  The first method worked like a charm.  Does that apply to 
my upgrade of CMF as well?

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