On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Alex Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-11-01 17:29:20 +0000, Maurits van Rees said: > > Hi, >> >> A few quick questions about the new style collections in Plone 4.2, to >> check that I understand them correctly. >> >> Unless I have missed something, old style collections are not migrated >> to new style when migrating to Plone 4.2. Does someone have code that >> would do that? Perhaps an add-on that I missed? If not, then I might >> want to create a package for that. >> > > > There is no code that I am aware of > > > > >> Sub collections are not possible in the new style. I guess this is >> because the UI and the logic can quickly get confusing and you do not >> win much over creating a second, separate collection. >> >> I am guessing that creating a folderish version of the new style >> collections should work though, allowing you to nest them. Some logic >> would be needed that looks for a parent collection and combine the two >> queries. That may not be good for Plone core, but are there technical >> reasons why this would not be possible? >> > > > Don't know about technical reasons, but what are the use cases for "sub > collections"? > There's already a branch for this: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.collection/tree/2.x-folderish-collection I don't recall the current status or discussion for this being merged to core.
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