[Zope-CMF] [dev] more add menu changes

[yuppie]

Charlie Clark wrote:
> Am 07.08.2008 um 12:26 schrieb yuppie:
> 
>> Proposal 2: main_template
>> -------------------------
>>
>> CMFDefault menus are implemented in main_template. I propose to add  
>> a new section for 'folder/add' actions.
> 
> 
> Hi yuppie,
> 
> finally had a bit of time to look at this. First of all thank you very  
> much for your work on this. It's a great pity your not here at the  
> DZUG conference to discuss.
> 
> I have an extremely basic implementation of this for the CMF:
> 
> from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName
> 
> tt = getToolByName(context, 'portal_types')
> ti = tt.getTypeInfo(context)
> 
> poss_types = ti.allowed_content_types
> 
> add_forms = []
> 
> for t in poss_types:
>      # get type info for child
>      nti = tt.getTypeInfo(t)
>      if nti.add_view_expr != '':
>          url = nti.add_view_expr_object
>          add_forms.append({'title':nti.title, 'url':url(context)})
> 
> return add_forms

I doubt that works: 'context' and expression context are not the same.

> I can't think of any other way to do this other than to call this  
> expression before returning it to the template. But it's more than  
> possible I've overlooked something.

Why do you want to bypass the actions machinery?

Something like that should work in main_template:
tal:define="add_forms python: actions.get('folder/add', {});"

Cheers, Yuppie