[Zope] Changing document type how-to: another idea

[Dieter Maurer]

Jaroslav Lukesh writes:
 > It exist a mini-how-to (I loose URL) about changing document type via ZMI.
 > But it is not useable for many documents.
 > 
 > After I was uninstall "HTML Document" product, I have lot of files that
 > have "HTML Document" type instead of File or "DTML Document". I have try
 > another method via FTP to change into "DTML Document".
 > 
 > 1. copy files from Zope via FTP to local filesystem
 > 2. delete files in Zope (via FTP)
 > 3. and copy files from local back to Zope via FTP 
 > 
 > But these throw away all properties (same as method in mini-how-to) and
 > does not allow to change into another than "DTML Document".
You can do it in an External Method:

  You create a new object (of the wanted type) and fill it with
  the old object as blueprint. You then delete the old object
  and add the new one.


Dieter