[Zope] properties UI suggestion

Oleg Broytmann phd@phd.russ.ru
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:54:49 +0000 (GMT)


Hi!

   What about copying/pasting properties? It is hard to copy/paste even 3
properties from one folder to another.

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > 
> > (I am afraid I don't know what list to mail this to, so I would appreciate
> > any redirection and "In the future..." comments)
> > 
> > I have a suggestion for the next iteration of zope: in the properties view,
> > zope has three columns: a check box, the property ID and the property
> > VALUE. How about a third... the property TYPE. ... it would be very useful
> > as I can't tell you how many hours I have wasted debugging code only to
> > realize I had accidently set a property to STRING instead of INT....
> 
> I'll add my voice to this request; just today my codeveloper requested
> exactly the same thing. I told him I'd ask on the list. :) He also had
> the idea of adding a dropdown box with all types behind each property,
> so you could convert the type using that (if that is possible to do),
> but just displaying the type would help a lot in debugging.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn

Oleg.
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