[Zope-CMF] Adapting ZClass (Compound News Item) to CMF, but state isn't updating in catalog

[Ivo van der Wijk]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:00:22PM -0000, ndegrootnl <ndegroot@ktu.nl> wrote:
> Using ZClass tutorials, I succeeded in getting the ZClass based 
> product 'News item with Images' to update itself in the CMF 
> portal_catalog. It now updates when 'Adding' the product and when 
> editing the properties. But after 'Publish' the state-variable in the 
> catalog does *not* get updated. I tried adding (variations of) 
> reindex_object() like
> 
>     state_change.object.updateCatalog()
>     here.reindex_object()
> 
> to a DCWorkflow script, but without success. I also tried to call a 
> ZClass method from the script. 
> We use the Compound News Item a lot on our site and I would be happy 
> to publish the revised version on the CMF Zope-site eventually. 
> Rewriting the product into a Python-based product is not an option 
> for me...
> 

Which baseclasses are you using for your ZClass? As far as I know, if you
derive from a CMF Content type, workflow state cataloging shouldn't be a 
problem.

Regards,

	Ivo

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