[Zope-CMF] Re: CMFTopic and catalog awareness

[Michal Kurowski]

Jens Vagelpohl [jens at dataflake.org] wrote:
> 
> IMHO a topic is more of a structural site item, something that isn't 
> part of the "normal" content but part of the site's structure. I 
> personally would use a topic in a situation where it is linked to 
> explicitly and people would never have to try and "find" it using 
> catalog queries.

I think it depends.

It's perfectly reasonable not to let people search for Topics and just
allow a content manager to structure the site with them.

But sometimes not. For example, you might want to bind keywords
management and Topics together and use them to let content be found
according to some logic.

That's what I do. The major objective is to be able to catalog pdf-s
and categorize them using keywords and many other criteria. I use
Topics for that.

I just wonder why Topics inherit from PloneFolder only.

-- 
Michal Kurowski
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