Adding Topics to the CMF 1.0 Beta

The code for CMFTopics are in the CMF 1.0 Beta, but getting your portal to recognize them takes some extra work. Here's how to do it.

CMFTopic has gone through a massive update to be CMF 1.0 savvy. This includes being properly skinnable and TypesTool aware. However, Topics don't get set up by default in the CMF Site building script that builds new sites. This document talks about how to enable Topics in new and existing CMF sites.

To enable CMFTopic in existing CMF sites, you need to follow the following steps in the Zope Management Interface:

In portal_types, add a new Factory-Based Type Information object. In the drop down list there should be CMFTopic: Topic. Select this and click Add after giving it the id of Topic.
In portal_skins, add a new "FileSystem Directory View' object. Select Products/CMFTopic/skins/topic and give it an id of topic.
In the portal_skins Properties view, on each skin setting, add in topic, preferably somewhere between custom and content.

Topic should then show up on the "Add content" screen.