[Zope-CMF] Topics Help

[seb bacon]

* Norman Khine <khine@btinternet.com> [010702 12:11]:
> Hello,
> Can someone please, show me how to display the topics objects on the index
> page for the cmf. similarly like the current cmf.zope.org site.
> 
> I am having great difficulties in understanding the structure, so far my
> understanding is that --
> 
> topics can be added by authorised users.
> these topics should be placed in the root folder of the user.

yes

> 
> how do you associate a document type to a topic, I can see you can set these
> perhaps in the criteria, is this correct?

i think so (don't have a cmf w/ topics in front of me)

> how do you call a topics object?

from a url, like:

  http://www.yousite.com/portal/topic

and the 'view' action is called automatically.  The method for this
action is in CMFTopic/skins/topic/topic_view.dtml.

If you want to add topics to the site 'home page', you need to add
code based on topic_view to index_html.  As Chris says, it's just a
normal Catalog query.

seb