[Zope-CMF] Folders within Layers? Is it possible?

[Beef a]

Hi Dieter,

Thanks for the reply.  I eventually got it working (there was a folder 
called view and a method called view which was confusing Zope and myself!)

I agree, ultimately CMF can't really cope with what I'm attempting to do.  
It looks like the only way forward is to uniquely name each file and create 
a flat structure.

As I have over 500 files, in separate directories for 40 plus objects, it 
seems the best way forward is to create ExternalFiles for each individual 
file under a <product> folder in portal_skins.  This way I won't be adding 
over 40 new skin directory views.

If you have any other suggestions, they'd be warmly welcomed.

Cheers

-- Brian


>From: Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de>
>To: "Beef a" <beef005 at hotmail.com>
>CC: zope-cmf at zope.org
>Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Folders within Layers? Is it possible?
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:01:51 +0100
>
>Beef a wrote at 2003-10-30 09:54 +0000:
>  > ...
>  > eg: So you can imagine my portal_skins folder looks something like 
>this;
>  >
>  > portal_skins/MyProduct/Part1/icon.gif
>  > portal_skins/MyProduct/Part1/hello.dtml
>  > portal_skins/MyProduct/Part2/icon.gif
>  > portal_skins/MyProduct/Part2/hello.dtml
>  >
>  > where Part1 and Part2 are Directory Views (again, there can be hundreds 
>of
>  > 'Parts')
>  >
>  > Note: Unique 'Part' names are used because elements are not necessarily
>  > unique (and can't be guaranteed to be unique).  eg: there may be many 
>unique
>  > 'Parts' but all may have an 'icon.gif'
>  >
>  > 3. Everything works fine so far accept when I attempt to access DTML.
>  >
>  > eg: I can access http://<object>/Part1/icon.gif and
>  > http://<object>/Part2/icon.gif perfectly... but not
>  > http://<object>/Part1/hello
>  >
>  > Depending on how I attempt to access a DTML object, I get one of two
>  > possible errors;
>  >
>  > ERROR 1: Attempting to access http://<object>/Part1/hello (directly via 
>the
>  > browser)
>  >
>
>You will have a hard time with any template:
>
>   The template must know which object it should present.
>   Templates use their parent ("aq_parent") for this.
>   This will be wrong for your architecture.
>
>   You cannot use the CMF framework in the way you want...
>
>--
>Dieter

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