[Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and Met hods?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Santaniello [mailto:someone@arbitrary.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:22 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and
> Methods?
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I've just started working with Zope, and it seems I've had a 
> bit of bad
> timing with the moving of the documentation and stuff on the new
> web-site; I'm having trouble finding stuff. So my apologies if the
> answers I'm looking for are right under my nose somewhere. ;-)
> 
> Is there some documented way of searching the contents of Zope Folders
> and Documents? And if so, can one search within properties as 
> well? And
> if not, where would be the best place to start for implementing this?
> 

Zope 2.0b has a notion of ZCatalog.  A ZCatalog is an object that can
store text and field indexes of Zope objects.  You can, for example, ask
a Catalog to text index the contents of all your DTML Documents, or to
field index all the objects with the property 'favorite_color'.  Then
you can create search forms to call the catalog and get a list of
objects which match your search criteria.

It's really far more powerful than that, but that should get your
started.

-Michel

> Many thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
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