[Zope-CMF] Re: Getting started with CMF

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 22 Nov 2006, at 17:12, Charlie Clark wrote:

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> Am 21.11.2006 um 17:14 schrieb Jens Vagelpohl:
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>> No, you either go into the portal_skins tool, find the  
>> main_template and use the "Customize" functionality to create a  
>> copy in the "custom" skin folder, which you can edit. Or, and this  
>> is the more complicated but "right" way to do it, you create a  
>> filesystem product with a filesystem skin folders and maintain  
>> your new main_template on the file system. Then you just need to  
>> make sure your new skin folder is higher up in the list of skin  
>> folders for the skin you use. A good sample product for setting up  
>> a new skin folder and integrating it is CMFCalendar, which is part  
>> of the CMF.
>
> Just so I understand this properly. The second, "right", way of  
> doing this is to move pretty much all the code into the file  
> system? Assuming I just wanted to alter the skins is there a  
> skeleton way to do this?

As I said, please look at CMFCalendar and see how skin folders are  
registered. Create a filesystem product that registers a skin folder,  
put your templates/scripts in there, and then put your skin folder  
name right underneath "custom" in the skins paths that are in the  
skins tool "Properties" view in the ZMI.

jens

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