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many items in a folderish object
There's a need within the management interface of zope.org to be able to
present many objects in a folderish object more efficiently.

It appears to me as if this is something that needs to be added to zope
itself, that is, that every folder display should be batched, probably
using a cookie the same way width and height are currently.

In the same vein, filter views (show x object-type) would also help in
this regard, and finally, it would be very good to be able to sort by
the various attributes of objects, I.e. display all folders first, then
documents, then methods. (indeed, I would suggest that this be the
basic format).

I do not know where to attack this problem from. If someone could point
out where in the zope codebase to approach this issue, and possibly
someone I could work with on it, that would be very usefull.

Thanks,

~ethan
Re: many items in a folderish object [ In reply to ]
mindlace wrote:
>
> There's a need within the management interface of zope.org to be able to
> present many objects in a folderish object more efficiently.
>
> It appears to me as if this is something that needs to be added to zope
> itself, that is, that every folder display should be batched, probably
> using a cookie the same way width and height are currently.
>
> In the same vein, filter views (show x object-type) would also help in
> this regard, and finally, it would be very good to be able to sort by
> the various attributes of objects, I.e. display all folders first, then
> documents, then methods. (indeed, I would suggest that this be the
> basic format).
>
> I do not know where to attack this problem from. If someone could point
> out where in the zope codebase to approach this issue, and possibly
> someone I could work with on it, that would be very usefull.

This is a well known problem.

I think that there are a number of design and requirements that need
to be addressed before anyone goes near the code. :)

I suggest you start a Wiki page on the topic at Wikis/zope-dev.

Hm, you may have hit on a good Jam Session topic for today. :)

Jim

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