On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Martin Aspeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Bain wrote: >> >> How do I go about creating a folder with a content rule/trigger. >> I see actions such as notify, copy to folder etc... but nothing like: >> "create folder" or "create object" > > Take a look at > http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/creating-content-rule-conditions-and-actions > - you'll need to create a new content rule action, but that shouldn't be so > hard. > too hard is relative to what you know already :). I think I found a nice example in mailtoplone http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/mailtoplone/mailtoplone.contentrules/trunk/mailtoplone/contentrules/ I'll go through that code as an example
>> Is there an add on for this already? Or does it need to be written? >> >> The use case is the ability to archive events based on month. The >> rules would be: >> >> On adding an event >> 1. Create a folder structure (if it does not exist) based on year and >> month >> 2. move the event to the year/month folder > > I would possibly just make a bespoke action type for this use case, rather > than try to generalise too much. You'll need some logic to determine where > to create the folder and what to name it that's probably not going to be > easy to generalise beyond this use case. > > Martin > > -- > Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who > want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book > > > _______________________________________________ > Product-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers > _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
