CreatingAPortalContentZClass

Abstract

This page describes the steps needed to create a new type of PortalContent through-the-web, using ZClasses.

Recipe

1. In the ControlPanel/Products folder, add a product, MyPortalContentProduct Note: you may also do this inside an existing ZClass product.

2. Create a new ZClass?, MyPortalContent, in the product. Include Portal Content Base as one of its base classes.

3. Add the "core" content: property sheets, DTML and Python methods, etc.

4. Create a Wizard for your new class in the product. Arrange to copy it to your portal's Wizards folder.

5. Override or extend the implementation of these methods from PortalContent:

   SearchableText

   signal the values you want indexed by default in the portal's full-text index

   Discussion methods

   add chrome to display/modify the discussion which hangs off of your object, e.g.:

   • addReplyForm

   • addReply

   • showReplies

6. Add Your Class Name the list of ZClasses? that provide Content. This list is kept as a property of the portal_properties tool in your portal instance. The property is called content_zclasses.

Resources

• The PTKInterfaceDocumentation

• WritingAPTKProduct

• CreatingAWizard?