[Zope-CMF] Re: CMFCollector almost fully functional

[Alexander Limi]

On 03 Jun 2003 17:34:27 -0500, Damon Butler <damon@hddesign.com> wrote:

> I'm running Zope 2.6.1, CMF 1.3.1, and Plone 1.0.1 on top of FreeBSD
> 4.8, and just installed CMFCollector from the link provided at plone.org
> <http://plone.org/documentation/howto/FrontPage/HowToAddCollector>.
>
> I followed the directions for installing CMFCollector to the letter,
> including the slight Actions modifications to several of the
> Collector-related portal types.
>
> For the most part, the Collector appears to work as advertised: with two
> caveats.
>
> (1) I cannot alter the id of the Collector itself. I must stick with the
> auto-generated id it provides. What this means is that I am unable to
> return to the Collector and edit its configuration after initially
> creating it. Attempting to submit changes (even if I change nothing!)
> always sends cursor focus back to the "Name" field on the configure
> form, and the helpful tip exclaims:

Have you tried renaming it from the Contents View instead?

> (2) I can't figure out how to assign a collector issue to anyone. Where
> do you supply names and addresses for issue handlers? Why is the "Assign
> to:" list box always empty?

Read the descriptions on the "Configure" page ;)

> And finally, a question: What is the purpose behind the Collector Subset
> object? What can you do with it? Where does it go after you create it? I
> couldn't find it after I made one.

I have actually never used it, but I think the idea is that you can create 
a view of a certain set of the existing issues, like a pre-defined search.

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