[Zope] Preparing data for Catalog

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Dangoor [mailto:kid@kendermedia.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 11:59 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Preparing data for Catalog
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     The catalog feature will gracefully solve a number of problems for
> me. Between now and the time that the Catalog stuff starts to appear,
> I'd like to start populating my ZODB with new information. Since my
> whole intent is to use the Catalog feature, I want to be sure that I'm
> setting things up well for that...
> 
>     I am planning on storing most of my information as Folder
> properties. Given a bunch of Folders with information stored as
> properties, will we be able to easily set up indexes for those
> properties? Is there something else we should do to ready our data for
> this feature?
> 

What or how the Catalog will work is not entirely cemented at this
point.  However, since properties can be used like any other object
attributes, I would say yes, you will be able to Catalog your objects by
those properties.

-Michel

> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
> 
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