[Zope-CMF] WorkflowMethod

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:52:00 +0000


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Mark McEahern wrote at 2003-1-9 10:02 -0600:
>  > For my portal types, I assume I should have an edit() method and that it
>  > should be wrapped as a WorkflowMethod(), but I'm really not sure what
>  > exactly this buys me.
> The idea (old use cases found on "cmf.zope.org") has been that
> you can control the method execution by your workflow:
> 
>   When the worflow state does not allow the corresponding transition.
>   you cannot call the method.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is broken in CMF 1.3:
> 
>   When the workflow state does not allow the transition, the
>   method is called anyway.
> 
> I decided to forget about WorkflowMethods after this experience.

Should this be in the CMF collector?
Is it fixable?

cheers,

Chris