[Zope-CMF] Re: portal_metadata

[Tres Seaver]

Sylvain Thénault wrote:

> I'm surprized that the portal_memberdata tool, which is provided since a

I'm assuming that this is 'portal_metadata', in line with the subject.

> long time with the CMF for now, doesn't seems to work at all. Actually, 
> the tool itself is working but there is no connection with the default 
> metadata implementation and so the metadata policy configured in the tool 
> is not taken in consideration at all. It seems that the only thing used is
> the vocabulary of the Subject. For instance, no content type cares if I've 
> marked the Description element as required and an empty description is
> given, nor if I've fixed the vocabulary of the Subject element and a not
> listed word is provided.
> 
> It doesn't seems to have a bug related to that in the collector. Am I
> missing something ?

The reason the policies aren't enforced by default is that many sites 
would differ about how and when to enforce them.  One site might want 
the transaction which attempted to save non-conforming values to fail, 
for instance, while another might allow the values to be saved (perhaps 
with a warning);  the second site might then check the constraints only 
before some workflow transition.

Tres.
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