[Zope-CMF] How to catalog Members?

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
24 Jan 2002 09:57:09 +0000


On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 04:36, Tres Seaver wrote:
> seb bacon wrote:
> 
> > I need to have a nice member roster, searchable by various properties. 
> > I'm just trying to think of neat ways of getting Members into the
> > CatalogTool, and wondered if anyone else had any thoughts.
> > 
> > At the moment I'm thinking some kind of Contentish proxy which lives in
> > a Membership folder.  I'll ruminate further on it this evening, but any
> > ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> You could implement the 'portal_memberdata' tool as an object
> 
> backed by its own catalog, which you could then query separately
> from the content.  Our CyberCamp implementation used this technique
> with some success.

I've ended going down the proxy route, and though perhaps your idea
would have been better in some ways, I've done it now.  Thanks for the
suggestion.

seb