[Zope-CMF] default values

[Andreas Jung]

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- --On 4. Dezember 2006 16:53:35 +0100 cristi <cristi at medialab.sissa.it> 
wrote:

>
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have a Zope+Plone web application and one of my forms aks the
>>> user for some information. Then this information is saved in the
>>> Zope database.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Huh? When you work with Plone then you are using Archetypes for
>> content-types?! Archetype fields can have a 'default' parameter. Check
>> the  docs!
>>
>
> thank you, but unfortunately this is not ok for me. the documentation says
> the filed receives the value during the object initialization. So when the
> object will be shown in the HTML form it will contain the default value,
> but
> the user can invalidate it. However, I want to allow the user to save
> such an
> object but if the field is empty/null/invalid then i want to provide a
> default
> value.
>
> I hope I was clear enough. Otherwise please ask.

Write your own mutator methods that implement the desired behavior instead 
of using th autogenerated mutator methods.

- -aj



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