[Zope-CMF] News and events not always visible in topics

[Dmitry S. Makovey]

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On May 18, 2004 09:50 pm, Peter Shute (NUW) wrote:
> I'm using Plone and I'm having some trouble with topics.  The Plone list
> didn't respond to my question so I'm asking it here because topics are a
> CMF thing.
>
> I'm finding that news and events don't always show up in topics I've
> created.  It looks like they need to have some body text (or whatever you
> call it) before they'll be included.  I can then delete this text, and
> they'll still be included.
>
> I don't understand how topics work.  It seems like they work off some sort
> of catalog of items.  My theory is that items don't get cataloged (or
> recataloged?) until they have had a change made to their body text.  Thus,
> new items without this text can never be seen.  This particularly affect
> events, which may not need anything in this field.
>
> Am I barking up the wrong tree here? What do I need to do to fix it, apart
> from adding and removing some body text  for everything I want to appear in
> a topic?

What you describe would be quite disturbing, but so far I've never seen 
behavior as you describe. We're running Plone sites with Topis for quite a 
while now and *never* got into situation like you describe. Which version of 
software you're using - maybe your problem is in those (I recall cataloging 
problem with some of Zope-2.6 series but AFAIR it was metadata problem)

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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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