[Zope-CMF] DublinCore & ExtFile as meta type in CMF

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:04:18 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Geoff Benn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm very new at this - and I'm learning & trying to integrate ExtFile
> into CMF 1.1 beta and currently believe that I need to add the following
> into ExtFile.py (with suitable code in ExtFile's __init__ ):
> 
> from DublinCore import DefaultDublinCoreImpl
> 
> This one line causes my portal_types to be omitted from the Add Content
> menu.
> 
> Anyone care to suggest where I should look next ? Has anyone added
> ExtFile into CMF as a meta type ? Are there any notes on how to add meta
> types ?
> 
> Note: I've earlier noticed that
> - metadata_edit_form.dtml get's the 'Identifier' of a higher level
> folder rather than the 'id' of the new object.
> - ExtFile uses descr rather than description.

Jeff Sasmor has ExtFile/ExtImage wrappers in his CMFOptions product:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/CMFOptions

Tres.
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