ContentWidget/ContentField idea

I often need to populate a content type after its creation, but I think
it would be nice if there was a standard way of doing this.

Often I also need to attach properties to a content type. It would be
nice to reuse content types for this instead of making big changes to 
products.


So I have though of a new field/widget pair, and would like to get some
feedback on the idea.

The basic idea is that a field can have a complex content type as a value.

E.g if I have an intranet content type, and I always want a 'news'
folder for that content type, I would add a ContentField like this.

ContentField = (
     'news',
     required=0,
     show_in_folder_listing = 1
     is_frontpage = 1
     widget = ContentWidget(
         portal_type = 'Folder',
         title='Site news',
         description='This folder is for news items',
         init_script = 'setupNewsfolder',
     )
)

The folder would then automatically be created in the content type. Just
like ordinary fields and the 'init_script' would be run on it.


Anybody see any pitfalls in this scenario?


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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

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