Philip Kilner wrote:
[..]
In those cases you may actually want to be able to define
permissions on instance base - as opposed to type base
which is what DCWorkflow does.
Does this refer to Plone content, or to other artefacts?
Well, whether you consider folders per se as content
or not can be a matter of long debates. But to answer
your specific question: if you consider an ATBTreeFolder
content, then yes, Plone content - realized via a copy
and rename of the 'Large Plone Folder' FTI and then
configuring the workflow tool to not consider this
type subject to *any* workflow (BTW: this is exactly
how CMFDefault handles folders in the first place; it
was a conscious decision in Plone to make folders
per se subject to workflow which - frankly speaking -
I've never understood. For almost all use cases I
came across it is more of a hinderance than a help
to have folders workflowed).
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Whether working with current or future workflow, would not the
"Plone-ish" way of doing this be to create a type with a "null" (e.g.
one state, no transitions) workflow?
This would be one way; an alternative I've outlined above.
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I'm not 100% sure whether we are talking about Plone content here, but
we all need to know our options (including the option to shoot ourselves
in the foot!). Since I get so much leverage from using Zope products
which "play nice" with Plone, I think that there is some benefit in
making such options better understood.
Maybe the key thing to understand here is that Plone is an
application on top of Zope *and* CMF. Zope provides the
security mechanism in the first place. The CMF provides a
workflow tool which - among other things - extends Zope's
security mechnism to become *type and state* depended
(via 'portal_type' and 'review_state'). This is a *big*
improvement but still there might be cases where you don't
want or need that. That's all I'm saying.
Raphael
PS: If people think Plone content ought to have a
review_state I simply disagree.
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