[Zope3-dev] Re: Field binding considered icky

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 03:37, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > 3. Perhaps there are other cases where we want to take context into
> >    account for some reason.  Perhaps allowable values for a field
> >    depend on data acquired from a folder.  This is hypothetical, but
> >    people I trust have told me that this is likely.
>
> While I think this particular case is yagni, I would definitely not rule
> out the possibility of having a vocabulary field highly depend on the
> context or even the exact location.

The bug tracker already uses this type of feature. In the bug tracker folder 
one defines all the available "bug types" for example, and a vocabulary looks 
these up to provide a choice when adding and editing a bug.

Regards,
Stephan
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