[Zope] Re: Clever solution wanted

[Mario Valente]

At 13:04 22-01-2002 +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Mario Valente wrote:
>
>>   Create a ZClass called MenuItem which has 3 properties (urlText,
>>  targetFrame, displayText).
>>
>>   Inside a folder called Menu (or whatever) allow only the creation of
>>  class MenuItem instances (objects). Your editors should be allowed
>>  to instantiate how many of those they want (you should probably use
>>  some kind of object Id generation; dont let the editors choose the ids
>>  themselves). The only other item in this folder should be a DTML
>>  method with something like this
>>
>>     <dtml-in "objectValues(['MenuItem'])">
>>        <a  href="<dtml-var urlText>"   target="<dtml-var targetFrame>" >
>> <dtml-var displayText> </a> <p>
>>     </dtml-in>
>>
>>   If you put this "Menu" folder on the root of your Zope, you can call the
>> menu anywhere
>>  with a simple <dtml-var Menu>
>I had quite a similiar idea (not as elegant as yours) but the problem is
>that I would have to include a "Sort"-property which would give the ability
>to arrange the entries in a specific order.  I can not imagine an easy
>solution which enables this.  That's why I thought storing it in a kind
>of file would be the solution which fits our needs because those people
>who care for the menu are able to use text editors for thos purposes.
>
>Any idea how to solve the ordering problem with your solution?
>

  Use the OrderedFolder product to store your MenuItem class instances.

  C U!

  -- MV