[Zope] Auto Cataloging my ZCatalog

[kamal hamzat]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>
To: "kamal hamzat" <hamzat at dnetsystems.net>; <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Auto Cataloging my ZCatalog


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "kamal hamzat" <hamzat at dnetsystems.net>
> To: <zope at zope.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 12:51 PM
> Subject: [Zope] Auto Cataloging my ZCatalog
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a ZCatalog that my users use to catalog there news articles which 
> are (DTML Documents). I have already explained it to them to always input 
> the id for the new DTML Documents under "with ids" section on the Find 
> Objects tab on the ZMI to catalog new articles. But most time they will 
> not and they end up cataloging the entire articles which runs to 13,000 
> records.
>
> What i want is either to be able to display error when the "with ids" is 
> missing on Find Objects form or to be able to automate it. For example use 
> a python code. I am new to python but very eager to learn.
>>
>
> One possible approach:
>
> - I would not allow end-users access to the ZMI.
>
> - Have users interact with the application through a menu driven interface
>
> - Use a series of forms to collect data, then use python scripts/external 
> methods to create/store objects (eg. your DTML Documents) and update the 
> ZCatalog(s).
>

This sound interesting, but i do not have an idea of how to use python/ 
external method to create/store objects.
I will appreciate if you can point me to links or articles that have treated 
something similar.

Thanks
kamal