[Zope-CMF] How do I add new metadata values?

[Doug Hellmann]

On Thursday 19 September 2002 5:32 pm, alan runyan wrote:
> > I looked through all the HowTos and FAQs I could find, as well as the
>
> mailing
>
> > list archives, and found nothing that helped.  I did find discussions
>
> about
>
> > how to change the defaults for the existing metadata values, but nothing
> > about adding a new value.  Am I misunderstanding the way the metadata
> > tool works?
>
> yes Doug you are ;(.

Sigh.  :-/

> the metadata tool is not very flexibile.  there is a patch for
> FlexibleMetadata that
> I *think* may help.  What I know *will* help is CMFTypes, although the
> presentation is Plone centric (I consider it a good thing ;) - you can
> programatically
> add attributes/metadata to your objects w/o having to futz with skins.

Great!  I'll give that a shot and see if it gets me closer to what I really 
want.

Thanks for the help!

Doug