[Zope] Re: Using the Property Manager to build simple forms...

[Maik Jablonski]

Russell Fine wrote:
> I'm a newbie to developing products in Zope, and am struggling with how to
> easily build classes with multiple property sheets that don't allow the
> user to add and remove fields.  I've looked at ZClasses, but everyone says
> not to use them.  I've looked at inheriting from PropertyManager but the
> standard interface allows the user to modify the fields.  Here's what I
> need :
>  
> 1. The ability to define properties for an object.
>  
> 2. The ability to set up one or more ZMI forms to change the values in
> these properties.  The purpse of multiple forms is that there may be many
> properties, and I want to group them into bite-size chunks.  Also,
> different people will be editing different groups.
>  
> 3. The ability to derive an object from a base class that itself has
> pre-defined properties and it's own editing pages.
>  
> 4. I don't want to hand code property editing pages every time I add a
> simple property (like a text or date field).

Hi,

I've just released PropertyTools 2.0 which can solve most of your
problems...:) Have a look at

http://mjablonski.zope.de/PropertyTools

Cheers, Maik