[Zope3-Users] Re: Confirming member generated objects?

[Christian Klinger]

Hi Maken,

maybe the hurry.workflow fits in your usecase.

See the documentation here 
http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/hurry.workflow/trunk/src/hurry/workflow/workflow.txt

Christian

> Hi!
> In many applications members can add content but with the restriction 
> that it needs to be confirmed
> by a manager before it becomes "active" and accessible to anybody else. 
> I'm trying to accomplish this
> with an idea of mine, but I'm very open to other ideas of course :) 
> Basically, lets say I have a site 'mysite'
> and an item container 'items'. And an Item is the content component of 
> my app. When people add items in
> 
>      /mysite/items/+/ztest.Item
> 
> ... my idea is that it is then actually only added e.g in an 
> 'unconfirmed' folder in the site manager of mysite.
> This, I'm trying to achieve by subclassing AddForm and overriding the 
> add method (since add is the only
> interesting here, the rest is dotted in the code below:)):
> 
> #------------------------------------
> class ItemMemberAddForm(AddForm):
>     form_fields = ...
>     label = ...
> 
>     def create(self, data):
>     ...
> 
>     def add(self, object):
>         con = queryUtility(IItemContainer, u'unconfirmed')
>         o = 
> IAdding(con).add(object)                                        # How to 
> add it??
>         self._finished_add = True
>         return o
> #------------------------------------
> 
> 
> The 'unconfirmed' folder is registered as a utility for easy access. 
> Obviously the code above isn't working
> and i'm not even sure I know what I'm doing with the IAdding :O
> I think I'm in the difficult phase of the Z-learning curve... just 
> learnt the basics and now anything beyond the
> basics seem really complicated :)
> When I do manage to pull this off, it shouldn't be too hard moving 
> confirmed objects to /mysite/items (I looked
> at zope.copypastemove for this, but first I want to get the adding 
> working..)
> 
> Any thoughts on my idea/code or any other things related to confirming 
> member generated content are very
> much appreciated!
> 
> Regards
> Seteva