[Zope-CMF] How to Override CMFDefault Content Class Methods?

[Tres Seaver]

On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 09:22, Yuppie wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> What I want to do, is to customize the behavior of existing CMFDefault 
> content items, without
> - touching the CMF Product
> - converting existing content objects to items of a new subclass
> 
> The only way I know is the 'Scriptable Type Information' of the CMF 
> Types Tool, but it just lets me customize the construction of a new object.
> 
> 1. Is there a way to add/change methods of existing objects?
> 2. Will it be possible in Zope3?
> 3. Or shouldn't I do that for any reason?

Skins allow you to add new "actions" (ZPT, DTML Methods, PythonScripts,
External Methods) to the site;  these "methodish" items can be
associated with particular content types by way of the "Actions" tab
of the 'portal_types' tool.  No conversions required, but you may need
to be fairly clever in implementing these skin methods to ensure that
they work cleanly for both "old" and "new" instances.

Tres.
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