[Zope] RE: Two newbie questions

[Amos Latteier]

>  Michael Bernstein wrote:

> Fair enough. I did have one other idea though: Will Topics 
> accept parameters
> passed to them? Put it another way, will we be able to build 
> dynamic topics?

I don't see much need for this. Do you? Why not just use a search form
for this kind of thing.

> Another idea: Will it be possible to 'Topic-ize' the results 
> of a ZSQL method?
> they return a flat list.

Hmm. Perhaps, though I don't see how to easily map SQL method results on
to Zope objects in the same way the catalog provides a 'getobject'
method...

> I had a light go on: I can use Topics in combination with the 
> Calendar tag and
> acquisition to build custom calendars!
> 
> Given:
> /root
>   /Topic_1
>   /Topic_2
>   /Topic_3
>   /Calendar
> 
> A URL like /root/Topic_1/Topic_2/Calendar/ should be valid 
> and show me events in
> both Topics (or categories, whatever)!

Sounds good. In fact I mostly thought of Topics being arranged in
containment hierarchies, but you could acquire Topics to create combined
Topics dynamically.
 
Thanks for your ideas.

-Amos

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