Please download current releases at http://mjablonski.zope.de/PropertyTools

You want to create database-apps with the ZMI in a few minutes? Then have a look at PropertyFolder...

Please note: PropertyFolder is developed for Zope >= 2.6.1! It will not work as expected with other releases.

The PropertyFolder is intended mainly for use in conjunction with the PropertyObject and AbracadabraObject. If you got the logic and power behind AbracadabraObject, you will love the PropertyFolder. If not, you will have no idea what to do with PropertyFolder at all... but maybe you can use it for other problems as well.

After installing you can add PropertyFolder's. The property-view of a PropertyFolder is a configurable property-sheet, which you can edit & modify & sort to meet your needs (Security-right: PropertyFolder: Edit). Additionally you have a "Manage-Tab" (Security-right: PropertyFolder: Manage). There you can set an "object_type" for your PropertyFolder, which can be a DTMLMethod or ZPT and is used to index and render your PropertyFolder or to identify different kinds of PropertyFolders. Additionally you can set a description which will be displayed as a help text on the top of the property-sheet. Still more you can set a default_catalog and lock/unlock the property-sheet of your PropertyFolder. You can save your changes or synchronize the properties and management-values of all PropertyFolders of the same object_type in this folder and below.

If you want you can use the "Publish-Button" of the PropertyFolder. Publishing means that a special variable published is turned on for a PropertyFolder (Security-right: PropertyFolder: Publish). You can use this for some kind of review processing for PropertyFolders. Please note: No business logic is taken at all while "publishing" a PropertyFolder!

Maybe it is hard to understand what I meant with the PropertyFolder. But I promise you: If you ever wanted to create databases with the ZMI, AbracadabraObject, PropertyObject and PropertyFolder is what you need...

Please feel free to contact me over the official ZOPE-mailinglists: [email protected] (english) or [email protected] (german)

	Title	Type	Size	Modified	Status
	changes	Document	2 K	2003-03-10	published
	PropertyFolder-1.10	Software Release		2002-09-18	published
	PropertyFolder-1.2.0	Software Release		2002-11-21	published
	PropertyFolder-1.2.1	Software Release		2002-11-22	published
	PropertyFolder-1.2.2	Software Release		2002-12-20	published
	PropertyFolder-1.3.0	Software Release		2003-01-06	published
	PropertyFolder-1.3.1	Software Release		2003-02-04	published
	PropertyFolder-1.3.2	Software Release		2003-02-23	published
	PropertyFolder-1.3.3	Software Release		2003-03-10	published