Re: Archetype "My Document"

Hi Dhyani,

I tested out your script - how to create and edit archetypes instances
programmatically. It works very well as you can see it on my site. But I had
to do two things - first restart zope and then do /portal_quickinstaller,
check "ArchExample" as Priyadarshan suggested.

My question can we experiment with creating new content types using
archetypes.

Mallikarjun


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From: "Priyadarshan" <VasudevaService-K9y3B4ipJAZZAIG4hdpdiNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
To: "Vasudeva Service" <VasudevaService-K9y3B4ipJAZZAIG4hdpdiNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [VasudevaService] Archetype "My Document"


> Dhyani, Jagrata,
>
> > Archetypes are products that naturally belong to the whole zope site,
> > but
> > you have to install them for every Plone site by doing the following:
> > On your Plone site, go to /portal_quickinstaller, check "ArchExample"
> > and
> > click on "Install".
> >
>
> I understand now. I did install the products in the srichinmoyraces
> test site.
> It is a chinch.
> Thanks.
>
> > I am answering your points 2) and 3) together. I did not create the
> > edit
> > page of Archetypes - this is part of the Archetypes framework.
> > Obviously
> > they tried to make the Archetypes edit page look similar to the
> > built-in
> > Plone edit page, but they didn't care to make them identical, as you
> > would
> > like them to be. I'm not sure to which extent I can customize this, I
> > have
> > to do some research here.
> >
> > But then, I would suggest that we actually modify the above help text.
> > Instead of :
> > "If you are unsure of which format to use, just select Plain Text and
> > type
> > the document as you usually do.",
> > we should have:
> > "Please select Text/Html if you want to use Epoz for editing".
> > Because, if you don't select Text/Html and you use Epoz, you are
> > asking for
> > trouble, as I can assure you from my experience....
> >
> > If you are happy with the field name "Mydescription" instead of
> > "Abstract",
> > that's no problem. Only "Description" is not possible, as I explained
> > before. Please confirm this, and I will do it ASAP.
> >
> >
>
> I must confess, I still feel very uneasy about using Archetypes for our
> basic content type. We are definitely going to use Archetypes for
> complex data structures, like races, running logs, library items, ect,
> but there are some marginal issues which give me the feeling of an
> unfinished product.
>
> When I look at the default Plone Document, I see for example a
> "Sharing" tab that does not show up in the archetype content.
> Also, when i look at the archetype one, I see a "references" tab, (it
> does not show up for the default document) which seems not to work.
>
> When I edit an Archetype, it does let me choose a "Text Format", which
> does not make sense, since it should be "plain/html" only. this does
> not happen for the default document.
>
> Somehow, it seems to me that archetypes (at least the version we have,
> 1.2.4. I know that plone 2.0 require 1.2.5 compulsory) are still not
> hooking up perfectly with the rest of Plone.
>
> So, since right now the all machinery is very smooth, and tidy, I
> really would like to keep it like that as much as possible. What do you
> think about it?
> Is this just my impression?
>
> priyadarshan
>
>
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