[Zope-dev] CMF attribute horror or too many [t|T]itles

[Chris McDonough]

Hi Romain,

This is slightly offtopic for zope-dev.  It probably belongs on the Zope CMF
list.

Thanks!

- C


----- Original Message -----
From: "Romain Slootmaekers" <romain@zzict.com>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:26 AM
Subject: [Zope-dev] CMF attribute horror or too many [t|T]itles


> Yo dudes,
> just a stupid simple question:
> After wrestling with the documentation, I have created my own CMF content
> type and it actually works except for some details. In retrospect, it was
> 90% code browsing, and 10% useful
> documentation,... cmf is fun, but the cmf dogbowl really sucks ..
>
> Anyway,
> The type I created has a method
> def Title(self,REQUEST=None):
>   ...
>
> and that gets used by some of the skins,
> The meta data of the object also has an attribute Title, which is used by
> the Topics for indexing,
>
> Now my problem: when a topic lists one of my objects, it lists them with
>
>  ...
>  <li> <a href="&dtml-objURL;"><dtml-var Title>.</a> </li>
>  ...
>
> but neither my Title() method nor the Meta-data's Title attribute gets
> to be used. I get an empty string.
> Where does that one come from ?
>
>
> To make it even more confusing, the object also acquires a title attribute
> from somewhere higher up the acquisition tree.
>
>
>
> PS:
> I noticed the same problem when adding fi a File object through the zope
> management api instead of the portal management interface.
>
>
> Anyone any clues ?
>
> TIA,
>
> Sloot.
>
>
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