On 7/23/10 9:20 AM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
Hello All,

I'm interested in writing a save data adapter for ploneformgen that saves the 
data to an actual content type. It'd just take the fields from the ploneformgen 
form for it's schema. I find that in some cases, a user just wants a persistent 
form and it seems foolish to write a packaged content type for each one.

The advantages being:

 *   can use collections to query results if some of the dublin core meta data 
is available
 *   can apply placeful workflows to content type
 *   users can comment on form
 *   easier to manage data after

One possible snag is if a user removes a field or renames it, there might be 
data loss.

I'm posting this here because I'm interested in hearing what others think of 
the idea, if it's already done, or if I'm just being foolish before I write a 
product for it.
A dexterity content type, you mean?

I've wanted to do something like this for a long time, but haven't found time 
to work on it.  Probably partly because I've been envisioning doing it by 
creating a next-generation PloneFormGen that's built around the Dexterity 
schema editor, so that we don't have to translate from one type of schema to 
another.

David
David Glick
Web Developer
[email protected]
206.286.1235x32

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