Tracy R Reed wrote: > > I finally got a round tuit and created us a nifty little BookReview > object for the website in the form of a zope Product. It has fields for > title, author, publisher, ISBN, a 1-5 rating, name of the reviewer, and > of course a place for the body of the review. Let me know if there is > anything else you would like to see. > > It has the standard document security and workflow. This means by > default it is in draft state and when you want it to appear to others > you can change it to a published state. We can now build a smart folder > to be displayed in a portlet that will show all objects of type > BookReview that are in the published state. People can just create book > reviews in their home directories, publish them, and they will > automatically show up on the front page in the smart folder. No need for > manual linking over. > > I have copied the BookReview code into my homedir. It needs to be moved > into /var/lib/zope2.8/instance/kplug/Products and zope restarted. Then > we need to use the portal quickinstaller to install this new product. I > would do it myself right now but I don't seem to have admin access to > the plone site. Someone with admin catch me on IRC and we'll set it up. >
It's now working, hooray! Looks pretty nice. good job TR. http://www.kernel-panic.org/book-reviews Where'd you steal the neat icon? Q1: maybe the container page could have a usage paragraph, or, perhaps better, a link to a short howto including suggestions about writing reviews. This could be a wiki page, I suppose? Perhaps something brief could be done and then an announcement posted to the regular list about this neat new feature. Q2: might we want to enable the "Allow Discussion on this item" property? Or perhaps allow the review author to express his preferences? If a situation gets messy, it can always be disabled manually, I think. Q3: should we grab the old reviews and plug them into new objects? I could probably volunteer for that, I suppose. Q4: what do we do when the list gets looong? Oh well, when the time comes, ... Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
