WritingAPTKProduct

Introduction

This document describes the steps required to create a Product which provides new kinds of PortalContent. See also CreatingAPortalContentZClass for notes on doing this through the web.

Base Classes

A portal-managed class must minimally inherit from PTKBase?.PortalContent and Acquisition.Implicit, or some subclass if Implicit.

Registration

Before a portal-managed class can be used, it must be registered. PTKBase?.register provides a function called register which is to be used for this purpose. It can be imported and used like this:

  from Products.PTKBase.register import register
  register(aClass,
         meta_type="A Portal Object", # Optional, will be fetched from aClass
         constructors=(addClass,),
         action="Wizards/aClass",
         permission="Add aClass",
         icon="aclass.gif")

Notes

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