[Zope-CMF] Symbolic Link Behavior

Carl Rendell crendell@caspiannetworks.com
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:00:23 -0800


I'm working on a news service project that has an interesting twist to
it.

We have various organizations that generate news articles, and each area
has its own editor to control polish and publication of the articles.
There is also a central news organization which from time to time needs
to search existing articles from these other organizations, and add them
to their own news offering.

What I'd like to do is create a pseudo 'symbolic link' that allows the
editor to create an object that references the news item. This allows
the effectively to be localized without the need to copy the article
over.

My questions are:

1. is it possible to obtain the UID for an object in the catalog (RID or
data_record_id_ are not constants or persistent)
2. if #1 is true, then can the object be called directly via dtml (in,
let, or var), or via python script?

Any help or advice will be much appreciated.

~Carl