[Zope-CMF] Path indexes

[Florent Guillaume]

CMF subobjects should be automatically reindexed when a parent is
renamed (that's part of the framework that CMF provides). However early
CMF versions had a number of problems with respect to indexing. You
should really switch to CMF 1.3 (read the Upgrading section of
INSTALL.txt though, and if you have substantial custom development don't
hesitate to browse CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt).

Florent

Miles Waller <miles@jamkit.com> wrote:
> wow! that was quick!
> 
> the bit I find confusing though is that the subobjects haven't really
> changed, so having to explicitly reindex each of them seems a bit
> counter-intuitive.  plus on my site renaming can be done by a non-technical
> editor, so i either set it up to reindex automatically after every renaming,
> or i have to get them to remember which folders have to be reindexed, and
> give them a reindex button...
> 
> plus when there are lots of subobjects reindexing takes time - it'd be nice
> to avoid all of this if the path index knew that renaming affected
> subobjects and sorted them out, without having to reindex all their
> properties.
> 
> maybe i'm just lazy, but ...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andreas Jung [mailto:andreas@andreas-jung.com]
> > Sent: 20 September 2002 10:50
> > To: Miles Waller; Zope-Cmf@Zope. Org
> > Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Path indexes
> >
> >
> > This sound more like a CMF problem then a PathIndex problem.
> > It looks like that after the objects are not reindexed after
> > a rename operation of a folder. I assume it must be necessary
> > to reindex the complete subfolder after renaming a folder.
> >
> > -aj
> >
> > --On Freitag, 20. September 2002 09:30 +0100 Miles Waller
> > <miles@jamkit.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using zope 2.5.1, with python 2.1.3 and CMF 1.1beta.  I
> > have a python
> > > script which returns a list of the newest 5 news items contained in the
> > > folders below.  The idea is that on the homepage of the site,
> > it shows all
> > > news items, but as you go into different sections it shows a more
> > > restricted selection.  It also allows me to use the same script in many
> > > sections.
> > >
> > > To do this, I carry out a query against a path index, using the
> > path from
> > > the current folder.  All straightforward so far, and works
> > fine.  However,
> > > if i rename a section, the paths indexed for any subitems are
> > not updated
> > > in the index and so the script returns nothing!
> > >
> > > An example:
> > >
> > > Before renaming:
> > >
> > >                contents of path index
> > > /              /
> > >  section       /section
> > >   news1        /section/news1
> > >   news2        /section/news2
> > >
> > > After renaming:
> > >
> > >                contents of path index
> > > /              /
> > >  new_section   /new_section
> > >   news1        /section/news1
> > >   news2        /section/news2
> > >
> > > Has anyone else used path indexes, and have they encountered
> > this problem
> > > at all?  If so, is there a workaround or is it fixed in a later
> > version of
> > > something (the versions are fixed at the moment because the server's in
> > > production)?
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