[Zope] better than Notes (but where are the views ?)

[Kevin Dangoor]

-----Original Message-----
From: chas <panda@skinnyhippo.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:23 PM
Subject: [Zope] better than Notes (but where are the views ?)


>however, i'm missing sommething. i can create these documents (oops,
>i mean zclass instances)  but  how do i get them out of the object db
>again ? is it possible to create the equivalent of Notes 'views' ?
>ie. filter all the instances of a class and/or with certain values
>of given properties ?

This is what ZCatalog comes in. It makes it really easy to grab objects from
all over the ZODB and spit them out any way you want.

<dtml-in "Catalog({'meta_type': 'Article', 'author': 'Blah'})">
<dtml-if sequence-start>
<ul>
</dtml-if>
<li><dtml-var title></li>
<dtml-if sequence-end>
</ul>
</dtml-if>
</dtml-in>

This is how the new zope.org beta works. A user can create a news item in
their own Member folder and, after approval, this article will bubble up to
the main news listing via ZCatalog.

Kevin