[Zope-dev] CatalogAware

[Michael Bernstein]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Michael Bernstein wrote:
> >
> > No, I'm creating two different applications, an image
> > archive and a book catalog. Both need to handle large
> > numbers of items. The standard management interface does not
> > scale to the number of objects involved from a usability
> > perspective.
> 
> Look at Shane Hathaway's BTree Folder :-)

Interesting idea, I hadn't considered that as a solution.
Has anyone created a ZClass that inherits from BTree Folder
and ZCatalog?

> > I'd like to know how to prevent the objects being listed in
> > the 'Contents' tab, while still allowing other objects (like
> > DTML methods) to be added there.
> 
> Well, all the postings are actually stored in SquishSite.data, so
> they're not actually 'contained' in the SquishSite object, hence they
> don't show up in the contents tab. A bit of magic in
> SquishSite.__getitem__ makes the postings URL traversable.

Interesting.

Thanks for the info. I've been using Squishdot a long time,
and I never knew that.

Michael Bernstein.