[Zope] Auto Cataloging my ZCatalog

[kamal hamzat]

Hi Joerg,

Thank you for the tips to install Abracadabra. I have also installed 
PropertyTools.
I tried to follow the tutorial to in the read me file "building 
contact-database" for PropertyTools.

a.. Create a folder called contacts.
a.. Create a "standard_object_folder" in contacts.
a.. Enter the "standard_object_folder", add a PropertyTools-Object and edit 
the property-sheet. Add new properties "email", "homepage" and "phone" as 
string-types.
a.. Go to the Manage-Tab: Set Object-Type = Contact, Unlock "Extensible 
Properties".
a.. Enter your contacts folder.
a.. Create a Catalog with id=Catalog.
a.. Add some contacts with the AbracadabraObject.

At this point i was expecting that the contacts i added to auto catalog. But 
nothing like that happened.

Is there something i was missing out.

What i want is this:

I have 2 Zcatalogs current_catalog and archive _catalog.
I use current_catalog to store only current articles. What I do everyday is 
to create the articles (DTML Doc), clear the current_catalog and catalog the 
new artcles using the article_id. My problem here is that even if I am 
succeeded in making the articles to auto catalog, how do i handle the issue 
of clearing the catalog before cataloging the new ones. I have about 13,000 
articles in one of the sections and this is reason behind having 2 
Zcatalogs. The site displays the current articles to visitors therefore i 
have to streamline the number of records in the current_catalog.

Having it in mind that just few visitors want to view the old or previous 
artcles, the archive_catalog is use to serve it.

I will appreciate any assistance you could render to me.

thanks


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joerg Baach" <lists at baach.de>
To: "kamal hamzat" <hamzat at dnetsystems.net>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Auto Cataloging my ZCatalog


> Hi Kamal,
>
>> 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.
>
> I am a big fan of PropertyTools and Abracadabra, to be found on
>
> http://iungo.org/products
>
> PropertyTool allows you to define Objects (e.g. Text documents) that are
> catalog-aware, e.g. index themselfes, without doing any coding.
>
> Your users would then copy such template objects into the folders where
> the content is to be stored. Abracadabra helps a lot with this 'copy and
> paste' machinery.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Joerg
>
>
>
>