[Zope-CMF] Re: Creating content type instances with Generic Setup

[Tres Seaver]

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Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> I would like a given profile to create some content (as opposed to
> tools) at portal creation time.
> 
> My reading so far suggests only toolset.xml and therefore tools and
> related information can be loaded via Generic Setup.
> 
> Am I wrong?  And if not, can anyone suggest an elegant alternative?
> 
> As best I can tell Generic Setup doesn't know about invokeFactory or
> any of that.
> 
> I suppose I could create a tool to do it in 2 steps :)

There is an option to do content import / export.  See
'CMFDefault/profiles/sample_content' for such an add-on profile.

See my CMFFolderExport product for an example of surfacing this
machinery on a folder-by-folder basis:

  http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/software/CMFFolderExport


Tres.
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