[Zope] ZCatalog Search Question

[Martijn Pieters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James W. Howe [mailto:jwh@allencreek.com]
> 
> Is there a simple (or even a not so simple) way to ask a 
> ZCatalog to return 
> the most recent instance of a particular meta_type?  Suppose 
> that I create 
> several objects with a meta_type of 'Article'.  I would like 
> to be able to 
> retrieve the last one created whether it was today or 2 months ago.

Have the catalog sort on date, and take the first (or last) item of the
results list.

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