James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Neil Schneider wrote:
>>.. James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
>>
>>> Hey! Looks like you found a recipe (criteria settings) that works
>>> for
>>> jobs.
>>> http://www.kernel-panic.org/jobs/
>>
>> Yep, got that working the way I wanted, Thanks Tracy. I wish that
>> SmartFolders allowed you to store thing under them like a real
>> directory, instead of having to put them inside a "real" directory
>> and
>> then hide it, to get what I want.
>
> Well, after setting up the "Topics" item (the new name for "smart
> folders"), the associated folder does kinda do what you want.
Didn't see this.
> Another "Topics" recipe might show items without regard to their
> location, but (perhaps) only selected because of their "type" --
> that's
> how events and news works, I guess.
>
> For book reviews, (and member contrib, etc), a sensible approach is to
> create a custom plone type -- the exact workings of which I'm
> stumbling
> over a little.
>
> But I think the general idea is
>
> - to basically duplicate a standard type with merely a new name, Add a
> "Factory-based Type Information" (but I haven't yet made this work)
>
> - to create an item that has a custom creation/edit templates, you
> have
> to do something more -- I think that's where TR was talking about
> archetypes. I haven't gotten to that tutorial, yet.
Your analysis make sense, even if I don't know how to get there from
here.
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