[Zope] Zope symbolic links

Eron Lloyd lloyd@lancaster.lib.pa.us
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:58:23 -0500


Joe,

The most popular pattern for this is to do a
<dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.redirect('/myfolder1/mygoodstuff')"> in a DTML 
method or Python script acting as a symlink. To my knowledge there is no way 
else out of the box to do this (though it would be interesting to implement).

HTH,

Eron

On Friday 08 February 2002 04:38 pm, you wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to create "symbolic links" in Zope either by editing ZMI
> code or programmatically?  Let's say I want to create a "pointer" to a
> folder I have someplace.  Is there a straightforward way to accomplish
> this?  Here is a very descriptive graphical example (hahaha).
>
> /[root folder]
> /myfolder1
>   +mygoodstuff
> /myfolder2
>   ->link_to_mygoodstuff
>
> Thanks
> -joe
>
>
>
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