[Zope3-dev] Products: Contents View Tab?

[Ian Beatty]

On 2004-04-28 11:23 AM, Eckart Hertzler is reputed to have said:

> The "browser:containerView" directive is an easy way to produce standard
> views, and no more. So it is not intenden to do a lot of customization other
> than the permission setting.

Okay. Thanks,

> Now, using a "browser:menuItem" directives only works, if there exists a view
> with the name ("contents.html"). If you don't define a contents view through
> another directive, you won't be able to add it to a menu.

Aah, that makes sense. The action of the menu item was set to
"@@contents.html", which I thought was automatically created for subclases
of IContainer. I guess I was wrong about that. (But the Cookbook was, too?)
Coming from Zope 2, I don't get this "@@" stuff yet.

> With the "browser:page" directive you create a contents view and can also add
> it to a menu.

Then that would seem the elegant way to go.

> More information on the default contents view can be found in the
> zope.app.container.browser package.

I'll check it out. I'm having trouble without an API reference and related
documentation to dig into.

Thanks,

..Ian

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