[Zope-CMF] DTML in News/Documents - WHY ??

[Seb Bacon]

Hi,

You're going about it the wrong way.  You need to suppy a new skin,
which consists of DTML Methods.  See the tutorials on the dogbowl for
instructions.

Seb

On 28 Mar 2001 13:01:36 -0800, Stephen Hindle wrote:
> 
> The lack of DTML in Documents is causing me problems
> with index_html pages.  The 'default' index doesn't
> list any of the contents of a folder - you have to
> keep hitting 'view contents'.  So I figured I'd just 
> 'supply' a index_html document.  However, this turned
> out to be more difficult then anticipated.  It has to 
> be done from within the CMF management console, as the 
> stock management console 'DTML_Document' type causes 
> CMF to choke.  The CMF based index_html page can't 
> display the news box though, nor any other cool CMF/Zope 
> stuff because they're all DTML based.
> 
> In short, this seems like a step backwards....
> Is it really a good thing not to allow DTML ?
> Could a new content type "DTML Document" be added
> to CMF ?
> Is there some other method for customizing the look of a 
> site ?
> 
> Mechanix
> 
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