[Zope-CMF] SkinnableFolder vs PortalContentFolder

[Florent Guillaume]

> Using Zope 2.5.1/CMF 1.3 on WinXP for development and FreeBSD for 
> production. I have exported/imported a CMF site from develpoment to the 
> production server, updated the skin paths, etc...

These are old versions of both Zope and CMF. Especially for CMF, the
behavior of SkinnableFolder has been changed a bit in CMF 1.4. I would
try with recent versions of CMF (which probably require recent versions
of Zope).

Florent


> 
> One of my custom portal_types behaves differently in its new 
> environment: the portal catalog won't index or update the custom type. 
> Updating the catalog through the ZMI works though. AFAICT, both setups 
> are identical.
> 
> I have created a custom type "Photo Album" that uses Florent Guillaume's 
> PortalContentFolder as a container, and rbickers's Photo product to 
> store its images. Since PortalContentFolder is catalog aware and part of 
> a workflow, everything works as designed on my local machine.
> 
> Originally I have used SkinnableFolder as a container, but somehow the 
> catalog stores the date of creation for the portal as values for 
> CreationDate, Date, ModificationDate, modified and created. 
> SkinnableFolders do, however, get catalogued on both systems.
> 
> I have tried modifying PortalContentFolder to use CMFCatalogAware 
> instead of DublinCore, and viceversa for SkinnableFolder. Locally, this 
> results in the incorrect date values being catalogued when using 
> CMFCatalogAware, and correct behavior with DublinCore. On the production 
> server, no indexing when DublinCore is used...
> 
> Some posts from 2002 suggested looking at how CMFArticle handles 
> indexing, I don't see the difference with PortalContentFolder does. But, 
> to make matters even more complicated, CMFArticles get indexed properly!
> 
> Any thoughts, suggestions?
> 
> Norbert
> 
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