On 4/11/06, Dieter Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gf wrote at 2006-4-11 04:27 -0600: > >I am interested in having the same object appear as the child of two > >different containers. These containers may distant from each other in > >the object hierarchy. > >In particular, I autogenerate a list of subtopics (child folders) for > >several areas of my website, but would like a certain folder to appear > >in more that one listing because it can be classified in multiple > >ways. > > In principle, the ZODB allows you to place the same > object into arbitrary many containers. > > Keep in mind however, that apart from the ZODB all other > parts of Zope treat the copies as different: the have > different URLs, different "PhysicalPath"s, may report > (the same modification) to different catalogs (in this case, > only a single catalog is informed, not all as you probably would like). > > >Is there a way to accomplish this? Is there anything in Zope like a > >symbolic link? > > Andreas already told you about my "Reference" products. > There is also a "Symlink" product of Shane. > And there is the "PortableHole" product that maps a complete > folder onto a different location. > > No solution is completely satisfactory... > > -- > Dieter >
Hi, My sincere thanks to Andreas, jcc, and Dieter for the great suggestions. It looks like one of these products will certainly fill my needs. Best Regards, gyro _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] 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 )
