Re: ContentWidget/ContentField idea

Max M wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

It's not really a field, though is it? I mean, are you expecting users to
edit this field (how would it look?) on the edit tab and view it on the view
tab?

If what you want is a pluggable way of populating a folderish content type
when it's created, then I think you want events. Rocky just checked some
code in AT to make it easier to react to events when things are first saved.

Martin

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