Add new Action for ContentType
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Lingfeng Xiong
Jan 11, 2013, 2:22:05 AM1/11/13
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Hi all,
I want to add a Action for a self-defined ContentType. For example, I defined a ContentType named 'Server', and I want to add a Action for it, like 'Resync State'. I have read the code in kotti/view/edit/actions.py, but I believe Action is global... so any idea to add a ContentType special Action? Or any future plan to add such support?
Thanks in advanced.
I want to add a Action for a self-defined ContentType. For example, I defined a ContentType named 'Server', and I want to add a Action for it, like 'Resync State'. I have read the code in kotti/view/edit/actions.py, but I believe Action is global... so any idea to add a ContentType special Action? Or any future plan to add such support?
Thanks in advanced.
Daniel Nouri
Jan 11, 2013, 2:53:20 PM1/11/13
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Hi
With the existing code what you can do is override the view, call the
original, and conditionally add your own action. But it's not too
elegant. And only one add-on can do it.
Your idea of adding contet-type specific actions sounds fine to me.
I'm open for a pull request that adds to Content.type_info a list of
type-specific actions, similar to edit_links. This should be easy
enough to add though it needs docs and a test.
Daniel
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With the existing code what you can do is override the view, call the
original, and conditionally add your own action. But it's not too
elegant. And only one add-on can do it.
Your idea of adding contet-type specific actions sounds fine to me.
I'm open for a pull request that adds to Content.type_info a list of
type-specific actions, similar to edit_links. This should be easy
enough to add though it needs docs and a test.
Daniel
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http://danielnouri.org
Andreas Kaiser
Jan 14, 2013, 3:18:20 AM1/14/13
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On 11.01.2013, at 20:53, Daniel Nouri <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Lingfeng Xiong <xiongl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to add a Action for a self-defined ContentType. For example, I
>> defined a ContentType named 'Server', and I want to add a Action for it,
>> like 'Resync State'. I have read the code in kotti/view/edit/actions.py, but
>> I believe Action is global... so any idea to add a ContentType special
>> Action? Or any future plan to add such support?
> With the existing code what you can do is override the view, call the
> original, and conditionally add your own action. But it's not too
> elegant. And only one add-on can do it.
>
> Your idea of adding contet-type specific actions sounds fine to me.
> I'm open for a pull request that adds to Content.type_info a list of
> type-specific actions, similar to edit_links. This should be easy
> enough to add though it needs docs and a test.
+1 for the content type specific actions.
> original, and conditionally add your own action. But it's not too
> elegant. And only one add-on can do it.
>
> Your idea of adding contet-type specific actions sounds fine to me.
> I'm open for a pull request that adds to Content.type_info a list of
> type-specific actions, similar to edit_links. This should be easy
> enough to add though it needs docs and a test.
For this particular use case there could be another solution: you could
implement a custom workflow for your content type with a (not so) final
state "synced" that has only a transition "resync" with destination
state also set to "synced" (kind of recursive). You could then
subscribe to the WorkflowTransition event and do your sync code in the
subscriber.
Andreas
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