[Zope-PTK] Search engine woes solved, sorta

Kevin Dangoor kid@kendermedia.com
Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:20:05 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pelletier" <mike@digicool.com>
To: "Nolan Darilek" <nolan_d@bigfoot.com>
Cc: <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] Search engine woes solved, sorta


> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Nolan Darilek wrote:
>
> > I like the fact that the PTK Z Catalog only indexes specific items,
> > since that reduces the likelihood for abuse. However, is it somehow
> > possible to index content in specific "trusted" folders, without
> > requiring publication/approval first?
>
>     There's _always_ a way.  ;-)
>
>     You seem to want content to be automatically published on
> submission.  If it is suitable that submittion and publication remain
> seperate steps, but without the requirement of reviewer intervention in
> specific cases, it is easy to implement.  You have to extend your portal's
> 'before_review' hook.  In this hook, you can check to see if the content
> exists in a 'review free' zone, and if so, promote the review request to a
> publication.

Actually, isn't there a "Contributor" role that is supposed to be able to
publish without review? You can always set things up so that those certain
submissions use a proxy role of Contributor to circumvent the review
process...

Kevin