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

[Rob Page]

> eg. just say i had a zclass called "articles" and each article has
> an "author" and a "date". i then create 100 instances of this zclass.
> how could i display all the articles written by a given author or
> on a certain date ?

You could either:

(a) tool through all of them searching for the values you were after
(yuck), or
(b) use the ZCatalog stuff

ZCatalog is a full-text and fielded indexing engine for Zope.  The New
Zope Site uses ZClasses and the ZCatalog EXTENSIVELY.

IMO, ZClass instances + ZCatalog are analagous to Notes views.

--Rob