Re: RFC: Proposal Dexterity API - two variants

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 22:49 +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5 November 2014 22:43, David Glick (Plone) <david.glick-z4DKO/[email protected]>
> wrote:
>         
>         
>         Well, we need a better way to do reusable fields then.
>         
>         This is a real use case: As an integrator, I want to install
>         an add-on which provides some functionality I can enable for
>         my types (for example a geolocation field), but I want to
>         retain control over where it appears on my edit forms, and
>         maybe change the label and help text.
>         
> 
> 
> I agree with this. I'm just not sure you need to make it possible with
> zero code to say "it has to be exactly between the title and the
> description" if the cost of that flexibility is a lot of complexity in
> the UI.

if we cannot reorder fields from behaviors, there should a way to
implement the ability to reorder. that shouldn't be the showstopper. i
thought there is, via plone.autoform/supermodel, like we already can
move a field from one behavior to another schemata.


> I do agree this part of the TTW story is somewhat under-explored
> though and probably you could give much more robust hints to the
> ordering algorithm (you know that beast all too well, David...) with
> better UI to manage it.
> 
> 
> That's not the same as adding another API for accessing field values
> for all content objects though...
> 
> 
> Martin
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