[Zope] creating instances of ZDiscussions programatically

[Dennis Allison]

>Dennis Allison wrote:
>>  
>> which allows my users to create a discussion thread.  I'd thought 
>> that I could simply simulate the ZMI mechanisms in Python or DTML,
>> This fails both when accessed expicitly and when accessed using 
>> the through-the-web interface.  I suspect protections but have not 
>> found the right ones to toggle.
>
>You've yet to actually tell us how it fails, provide your code or any 
>error messages. How are we supposed to help you find out what's going 
>on? ;-)

Sorry, I thought I'd done that and posted some version of what fails.
Dieter Mauer pointed out that the dispatcher was keyed with "ZDiscssions"
and that appears to work--at least it returns a dispatcher object.  So, 
to construct a ZDiscussions object in container, I would have thought 
I should write 


container.manage_addProduct['ZDiscussions'].manage_addZDTopic( id, title=...  ) 

and so forth.  manage_addZDTopic is defined in ZDBase, the base class for the 
ZDiscussions ZClass (which creates ZDTopic and ZDItems...).  

There's a bit more to making it work, but the first step is to get a program
creating an instance...