[Zope-CMF] Re: Track modifications in Zope

[Carl Rendell]

I believe this is from a discussion we had on the list quite a while 
ago.. Before CMF 1.3 was released. I was looking for ways to control 
the modification date held in the catalog and displayed to the user.

A couple of things came of this discussion. First, modification_date 
was broken out as a distinct attribute for each item in the catalog and 
is no longer dependent upon bobobase_modification_time(). This date can 
be changed via;

object.setModificationDate(date)

The second; My need to change _p_mtime was eliminated because it was 
modification time that I really wanted to change/control in the first 
place.

Hope that helps... If not you can post your question to the list and 
see if anyone has other points of view.

~C

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 02:25  AM, Cornel Nitu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to track modifications of all objects from my site, but I don't
> know when _p_mtime is set.
> Recently I found your following question. Do you have an answer to this
> "tricky" question?
>
>
>> Has anyone on the list ever 'set' the modification or other date
>> attributes on an object in the ZODB? I've looked at the
>> bobobase_modification_time() call and found it looks at an
>> attribute [_p_mtime] for an object, but have yet to discover what
>> controls the setting of that attribute, or if that is the attribute
>> to set?
>
>> I'm familiar with changing these on items in a file system, but
>> performing the same task on an object in the ZODB has me stumped
>> right now.
>>
>> ~C
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cornel
>

Carl E. Rendell
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