[Zope] Creating products

[Dustin Mitchell]

I can't seem to find the straight dope on this one in the
documentation.  I have a Python product, named Volunteer.  It has
several classes defined within it (VolunteerUserFolder, Opportunity,
etc.).  Each class defines constructors e.g., manage_addOpportunity and
manage_addOpportunityForm.

In order to instantiate one of these classes programmatically, I know I
need to do something like:

  context.manage_addProduct['Volunteer'].manage_addOpportunity(title="hi")

but this doesn't seem to work -- manage_addOpportunity is not found.  I
know that

  context.manage_addProduct['Volunteer']

is some sort of proxy for my product, but what is the list of
attributes I can access from this point (not counting acquisition,
obviously)?  If I wanted to add a static product-level function (for
example, run_background_check(ssn)), where would I put that function?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on all of this or direct me
toward a snippet of documentation I haven't found :-)

Dustin

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