Re: [Zope] Sequencing pages
John Poltorak wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:45:01PM -0500, J Cameron Cooper wrote: John Poltorak wrote: If I create individual pages for a website as sub folders of a sites main folder, how do I control the sequence of pages if I automatically generate a set of links to all the folders? I presume that under normal circumstances that sequence would be in alphabetical order of object ID. The standard folder lists its contents in "unspecified" order. In practice, it's in order of creation (I think.) Creation date sequence seems to explain the order I'm seeing. You can get ordered folders, which support changing the order. In fact, one ships with Zope in recent versions. Look for "Folder (Ordered)". I've often wondered what 'Folder (Ordered)' was for. Is there an example of its usage I can take a look at anywhere? Make one on your box and look at it. It's not like you can't just delete it. --jcc -- "Building Websites with Plone" http://plonebook.packtpub.com/ Enfold Systems, LLC http://www.enfoldsystems.com ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Sequencing pages
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:45:01PM -0500, J Cameron Cooper wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > > If I create individual pages for a website as sub folders of a sites main > > folder, how do I control the sequence of pages if I automatically generate > > a set of links to all the folders? I presume that under normal > > circumstances that sequence would be in alphabetical order of object ID. > > The standard folder lists its contents in "unspecified" order. In > practice, it's in order of creation (I think.) Creation date sequence seems to explain the order I'm seeing. > You can get ordered folders, which support changing the order. In fact, > one ships with Zope in recent versions. Look for "Folder (Ordered)". I've often wondered what 'Folder (Ordered)' was for. Is there an example of its usage I can take a look at anywhere? > --jcc > -- > "Building Websites with Plone" > http://plonebook.packtpub.com/ > > Enfold Systems, LLC > http://www.enfoldsystems.com -- John ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Sequencing pages
John Poltorak wrote: If I create individual pages for a website as sub folders of a sites main folder, how do I control the sequence of pages if I automatically generate a set of links to all the folders? I presume that under normal circumstances that sequence would be in alphabetical order of object ID. The standard folder lists its contents in "unspecified" order. In practice, it's in order of creation (I think.) You can get ordered folders, which support changing the order. In fact, one ships with Zope in recent versions. Look for "Folder (Ordered)". What I did before ordered folders was to give each object a property (like 'sort_order') with an integer value designating it's place, and then sort the list on that property. Not terribly efficient, though using the catalog would help. --jcc -- "Building Websites with Plone" http://plonebook.packtpub.com/ Enfold Systems, LLC http://www.enfoldsystems.com ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Sequencing pages
John Poltorak wrote at 2005-6-25 13:46 +0100: >If I create individual pages for a website as sub folders of a sites main >folder, how do I control the sequence of pages if I automatically generate >a set of links to all the folders? I presume that under normal >circumstances that sequence would be in alphabetical order of object ID. Then you sort as appropriate. Python's "list" objects have a "sort" method. Zope has a module "sequence" with a versatile "sort" function, documented in the embedded online help ;-) -- Dieter ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Sequencing pages
John Poltorak wrote: If I create individual pages for a website as sub folders of a sites main folder, how do I control the sequence of pages if I automatically generate a set of links to all the folders? See the "FileLibrary" example, probably located at: http://localhost:8080/Examples/FileLibrary It's not obvious how it does its multi-column sorting unless you study it quite a bit, though, so keep reading until it makes sense. Go through the ZMI and look at the "getFiles" script (and others). I presume that under normal circumstances that sequence would be in alphabetical order of object ID. That's not a presumption I'd make at all, but not unlikely. ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
