[Zope] symbolic links or invisible objects..?

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Geoffrey L. Wright wrote:
> Aparently the fact that a number of other non-content objects are visible
> at the same level of heirarchy in the site is a problem.  So my question
> is this:
> 
>  Is there any way to make zope understand something like a UNIX symbolic
>  link?  If so, I could easily create a single directory with a symlinks to
>  all the appropriate objects in the site.  Content managers would then
>  have access only to this dir and would therefor see all appropriate
>  objects.
> 
>  Or perhaps there is a way to make other objects invisable to those w/out
>  the necessary permission to use them?  I've played with Zope permissions
>  a but, and haven't yet found a way to do this.
> 
>  Or is the some other way entirely to look at this problem?

How about creating a custom management page that just lists the
objects they need to change?  You could do this by hand if the
object list is static.  If, as is more likely, it changes, you
could create a Catalog that indexes meta_type or (if body_content
is not a specialized class) id, and thereby be able to pull up a
list of all body_content objects and list them on the custom
management page using dtml-in.  You can even use dtml-in batching
to keep the page size down if there are lots of these things.

--RDM