[Zope3-dev] Re: edit view of a object unknown?

[Garrett Smith]

Roger ineichen wrote:
> Hello together,
> 
> Is there a way to get the edit view of a object?
> 
> I can't find the right method for calling a 
> edit view. The views don't know for what they are
> and I don't know how somebody is registering the
> name of a edit view. Except the defaultView.
> Most the time they called edit.html, but not at all.
> 
> Or do I have to give back the object and select the edit 
> view in the ZMI?

There's no general facility for getting an edit view on any object -- 
you'll need to declare an editform using ZCML (at least that's the 
easiest way). Here's a snippet from file's configure.zcml 
(zope/app/file/browser/configure.zcml):

   <browser:editform
       name="edit.html"
       schema="zope.app.file.interfaces.IFile"
       label="Change a file"
       usage="objectview"
       permission="zope.ManageContent"
       class=".file.FileTextEdit"
       />

I'm not sure what 'usage' is doing there -- you can probably omit that 
in your declaraion (someone who's the wiser, please feel free to 
elaborate on why a simple edit form declaration needs to burden itself 
with usage="objectview" :-) ??

As the snippet illustrates, the configuration of an edit form is quite 
explicit -- "edit.html" might be "general.html" for another object, etc.

  -- Garrett