[Zope] adding Link objects to Plone folders programmatically

[Andreas Jung]

This is a FAQ. See lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/README.txt.

-aj

--On Dienstag, 19. August 2003 1:21 Uhr +0000 "Lee J. McAllister" 
<ljmcallister at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks, I'm fairly new to Zope and Python so this is probably a
> completely obvious one for most of you but I'd really appreciate any help
> you can give me on how to do this.  I'm trying to add CMF Link instances
> to Plone folders using a script.  The intention is to provide
> crosslinking of articles at several places through out the site to be
> determined at their creation time.
>
> Attempts to call the addLink method directly without importing the Link
> Class produces complaints about attempting to use an undefined global so
> I attempted to import the Link class using
>
>     from Products.CMFDefault import Link
>
> but it produces an error of
>
>     Error Type : ImportError
>     Error Value : import of "Link" from "Products.CMFDefault" is
> unauthorized. You are not allowed to access Link in this context
>
>
> Does the Link class need to be imported to create a Link instance in a
> Python script?  Is addLink even the appropriate method to be calling to
> do this or am I barking up the wrong tree here?  Am I just a lost Java
> programmer falling on his face making the jump to the Python wagon?
>
>
> Any suggestions or how-to referances you can provide me would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Lee McAllister
>
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