[Zope] Re: Zope External Editor for other folderish containers

[Jim Washington]

Casey Duncan wrote:

>On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:50 am, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
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>>--On Donnerstag, Mai 16, 2002 10:35:57 -0400 Casey Duncan <casey@zope.com> 
>>wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 16 May 2002 07:16 am, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
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>>>>Hi Casey,
>>>>
>>>>I installed ZEE and get the external edit-icon on all items contained in
>>>>a  "normal Folder". But since I working a lot with ZPatterns, most of my
>>>>items  are contained in ZPatterns specialists. How do I enable ZEE
>>>>support for  other containers ?
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>>>>
>>>Actually I think I misunderstood the question. In order to make this work
>>>you  need to change the managment screen (manage_main) for that object.
>>>
>>>Take a look at how the __init__.py in the product does this. The lines to
>>>include in the management screen start on  line 136 of the
>>>manage_main.dtml  in the product.
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>>I think it has no own, it takes the standard objectmanager manage_main
>>may I simply replace this 
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>Yes, just replace it with the one from the in the ExternalEditor product. Make 
>a backup first, tho just in case.
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Hi, Casey

This is a Truly Masterful Product! Thanks!

I've done some work to make it work (for me) in other places, and it 
appears that the link code:

  <dtml-let explicit="_.getitem('sequence-item').aq_explicit">
    <dtml-if expr="_.hasattr(explicit, 'manage_FTPget')
                   or _.hasattr(explicit, 'read')
                   or _.hasattr(explicit, 'document_src')">
      <a href="&dtml-URL1;/externalEdit_/&dtml.url_quote-sequence-key;"
         title="Edit using external editor"
      ><img src="&dtml-BASEPATH1;/misc_/ExternalEditor/edit_icon"
            align="middle" hspace="2" border="0" alt="External Editor" 
/></a>
    </dtml-if>
  </dtml-let>

will be reused over and over.

I was wondering whether you might consider in the future factoring the 
link code into a separate DTML method so that it can be obtained by 
acquisition.  That way, the code would reside once in e.g., 
ObjectManager; and then OrderedFolder, FindSupport, etc. could acquire 
it by using e.g., <dtml-var external_editor_link> instead of a full copy 
of the link code.  

Just a suggestion.

-- Jim Washington