[Zope-CMF] Formlib based view of folder contents
yuppie
y.2008 at wcm-solutions.de
Sat Sep 13 10:49:05 EDT 2008
Charlie Clark wrote:
> currently sitting with Tres and Jens in Saarbrücken working on a
> formlib based view of folder_contents and we're hitting some stuff
> that's been around for ages but might possibly no longer be required.
> An example of this is the Contents View Filter. Does anybody actually
> use this?
I never used it. But one major function of CMFDefault is to showcase CMF
features. And I'm not aware of any other code that demonstrates how to
use filtering.
> If so is it okay to drop the use of the cookie and either
> use hidden variables as the sorting options do already or possibly
> dump this information in the session? One of the problems with the
> current implementation is that the cookie is hard-coded to live until
> 2020 and will persist from one folder to the next but it's debatable
> whether the filters you want for one folder you would want for another
> but not the sort options.
>
> Our preference would be to put the filter information in hidden
> variables.
I don't think CMFDefault should rely on sessions. Using hidden variables
sounds fine to me.
Cheers, Yuppie
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