[Zope-CMF] BackTalk in CMF

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
31 Aug 2002 20:34:42 -0400


Well, the BackTalk product is not a CMF product, so it doesn't know
enough to add itself to the "Add Content" list, and when you create a
new kind of portal type and add an instance of that portal type via "add
content", it also likely doesn't know enough about BackTalk to be able
to create a BackTalk Book/Document.  The answer is to write a small
"CMFBackTalk" Product on the filesystem which wraps the current BackTalk
code enough to be able to add a portal type representing a Book or
Document.  Myself and others have threatened to do this on various
occasions, but it hasn't happened yet. ;-)

- C


On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 11:55, ERIC Lawson - x52010 wrote:
> Ah, thanks.  I'd been using the "Link" type from the CMF "Add Content"
> screen to add the link at the same level as the member folder, but I
> wasn't happy with the overhead of an entry page describing and containing
> the link (to a BT Book)...that entry page may come in handy later though.
> 
> My real hope was to be able to add "BackTalk Book" (also document) as an
> option on the "Add Content" screen, and I made some experiments to that
> end, by creating a new portal type based on the Folder type already in the
> portal's portal_types folder.  The experiments failed in successively more
> encouraging ways:  after I added folderAdd.dtml to the "custom" subfolder
> of the portal_skins folder, I seemed to be getting somewhere.  
> 
> I don't yet grok enough python (and Zope/CMF), however, to be able to
> determine whether my failure was due to my having used bad or incomplete
> values when I altered the "Folder" portal type to make "BackTalk Book", or
> whether the failure was due to limitations inherent in the BackTalk
> Product's present incarnation (0.3).
> 
> thanks again,
> Eric
> 
> -- 
> 
> James Eric Lawson
> Research Publications Editor
> National Simulation Resource
> 
> eric@bioeng.washington.edu
> 
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> -- Locke.
> 
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> > Not yet, although it's possible to create a BackTalk Book/Document
> > in a CMF Site (via the ZMI) and just use a "favorite" in the CMF to
> > create a link to it...
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ERIC Lawson - x52010" <eric@bioeng.washington.edu>
> > To: "Zope-CMF Mailing List" <Zope-CMF@zope.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:51 PM
> > Subject: [Zope-CMF] BackTalk in CMF
> > 
> > 
> > > Has anybody enabled BackTalk Books and Documents in CMF?
> > >
> > > Eric Lawson
> 
> 
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