[Zope-CMF] Re: Adding EXTENSIONs after site creation

yuppie y.2006_ at wcm-solutions.de
Tue Jun 13 03:49:36 EDT 2006


Hi!


Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
> Yes, by "both" I mean I check one box in the Import tab, and 2 things show
> up.  I select one extension, and the 2 extensions defined against that
> particular interface show up.
> 
> I haven't done it yet, but I suspect when I add a third, all 3 will appear
> :)

I have still no idea what's going wrong here. If you deselect "Include 
dependencies?" and push "Import selected steps" only the selected steps 
should be imported.

> Ah ok ... Thanks for the explanation re: "active site configuration".  From
> what you say, I think the behavior I'd expected was that switching profiles
> would change what is listed in Import in that only the things related to
> that profile can be imported.
> 
> So if my extension defines one import step, I switch to that active
> configuration, go to the import tab, and see ONE import step, NOT a
> cumulated list.
> 
> Once this is done, I can go back to my site profile, and see that the
> Import/Export tabs now have a new item.
> 
> At least that's how, I as as user expected it to work.  Switching profiles
> and always seeing a big list of things that I know have nothing to do with
> the selected profile, is counter intuitive IMO.

I don't know anybody who claims it's intuitive.

> Anyways, back to the original problem, I just want to make sure the intent
> is to have the ability to add extentions after the creation of a site.  So
> long as the answer is yes, I can live with that for now, knowing I can
> develop certain things as extensions.  I can help track down the bug later,
> right now I'm still focused on core functionality.

Yes. This is the intent and it works for me.


Cheers,

	Yuppie



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