[Zope-CMF] Re: Action Name as TAL Expression

[Tres Seaver]

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Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Pete Mawhinney <pmawhinney at fitness2live.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>From: Tom Dossis [mailto:td at yoma.com.au] 
>>
>>A CMF action name is currently a simple string.
>>
>>It would be a nice and relatively simple enhancement to have it support 
>>TAL expressions.  Note: This would need to be backward compatible, so we 
>>need to identify when/how to interpret the name as a tal expression.
> 
> 
> In any reasonable system, action names are not english strings anyway,
> and have to be post-processed before being displayed because of i18n
> requirements. And it's quite easy in your application's code to
> recognize a special action id and compute a value before display.

+1.  The action ID is used to identify the action in code, and should
should remain an "identifier" not a label.  I could see a patch like the
one proposed for the portal_actionicons tool, which is desgined for the
kinds of indirections the OP needs.

Tres.
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