[Zope-CMF] Re: News and events not always visible in topics

[Tres Seaver]

Peter Shute (NUW) wrote:
>>What you describe would be quite disturbing, but so far I've never seen
>>behavior as you describe. We're running Plone sites with Topis for quite a
>>while now and *never* got into situation like you describe. Which version
> 
> of
> 
>>software you're using - maybe your problem is in those (I recall cataloging
>>problem with some of Zope-2.6 series but AFAIR it was metadata problem)
> 
> 
> I have installed Zope 2.7.0,  python 2.3.3 (win32). Not sure exactly how to
> tell what CMF version I have, but looking at the product "CMFCore" it's
> 1.4.3.  I have CMFPlone 2.0.1.
> 
> I feel that the key to the problem is that when I create new news items or
> events, I don't have access to the subject field on the newsitem_edit_form
> or event_edit_form.  I had been going in via the management interface to
> enter keywords into the subject field.
> 
> I'm guessing that topics use data in the catalog, not in the items
> themselves (could someone please confirm and elaborate on that?), and that
> entering keywords via the management interface doesn't cause the item to be
> recataloged.  I'm fairly sure this is correct, because manually starting a
> recatologing fixes it, and clearing the catalog results in no items
> appearing in any topics. If you've never seen the problem, it may just be
> that you've never entered keywords this way.
> 
> I now see that I have access to the subject field via metadata_edit_form by
> clicking the news properties tab.  That solves the problem for news items.
> 
> However events don't have this properties tab, but I can manually add
> /metadata_edit_form to the end of the item's URL and get to it that way.
> Does anyone know how I can add this tab to events?

In 'portal_types', select the Event type object, access its "Actions" 
tab, and add a "Metadata" action.

Tres.
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