[Zope] feature suggestion (aliases)

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Tom,

tom smith wrote:
> 
> hi all
> 
> This would be really really useful.
> 
> An object type which just contained a reference to another object elsewhere
> in the system. It's main view would be, er, view (rather than edit) . It
> would behave like a Mac's alias or (I think) like a unix softlink.
> 
> It's only purpose would be to make navigation of the management screens
> easier and quicker. It's only *other* purpose would be to avoid duplicating
> code that doesn't fit into the hierarchy. Of it's three purposes...

There is already, althougt undocumented and commented out: the Moniker
object.
You find traces of it in lib/python/products/OFSP

Regards
Tino