Custom view for product

[Gibbous]

Hi,
I'm using EasyShop and Plone 3. I wish to create a customised view for
the products, preferably in a theme.

I have been hunting around quite a bit but with little success.

I have a theme built using paster and I need to know
1) which template I need to overide
2) where to put it
3) what other files need to be modified to get my template picked up

Any help would be appreciated
thanks,
Ivor

[ned14]

Try src/easyshop.catalog/easyshop/catalog/viewlets/product.pt

HTH,
Niall

[Gibbous]

Thanks Niall,
Yes that looks like the right template and I have made the changes I
needed to it, but how do I move this template into my theme so I don't
have to edit the easyshop code itself?

Ivor.

[Gibbous]

OK, I have copied src/easyshop.catalog/easyshop/catalog/viewlets/
product.pt into the browser folder of my theme. The configure.zcml in
the browser folder has the following entry:
<browser:viewlet
name="easyshop.product-viewlet"
for="*"
class="easyshop.catalog.viewlets.product.ProductViewlet"

manager="easyshop.catalog.viewlets.interfaces.IProductViewletManager"
layer=".interfaces.IThemeSpecific"
template="product.pt"
permission="zope2.View"
/>

I have checked it is being run ( put an error in the zcml and it was
flagged in the plone restart)
rerun buildout for my theme
Restarted Plone
re-installed my theme

and there is no change to the product's view.

It's definitely the correct template as I tried changing it in-situ
and the changes were picked it after a plone restart.

So where am I going wrong?

Ivor.

[ned14]

I am afraid that I do not know enough about Plone 3 theming to tell
you, sorry. I have to admit I am waiting in earnest for Plone 4's XSLT
based theming, it seems so very much easier.

Niall

[Gibbous]

OK for anyone else who wants to know:
The product view is a python class view so you need to override the
class and the template but only define the class in configure.zcml
so:
Copy product.pt from src/easyshop.catalog/easyshop/catalog/viewlets/
to the browser folder of your theme and change it there.
Add/edit a viewlets.py class to the browser folder of the theme with
the following:
from Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile import
ViewPageTemplateFile
from easyshop.catalog.viewlets import product
class ProductViewlet(product.ProductViewlet):
"""A custom version of the product view class
"""
render = ViewPageTemplateFile('product.pt')

Add/edit the configure.zcml in the browser folder of the theme to
include the following:
<browser:viewlet
name="easyshop.product-viewlet"
for="easyshop.core.interfaces.catalog.IProduct"

manager="easyshop.catalog.viewlets.interfaces.IProductViewletManager"
layer=".interfaces.IThemeSpecific"
class=".viewlets.ProductViewlet"
permission="zope2.View"
/>

Restart plone and if necessary reinstall the theme.

Now I just need to see how this should be done from ArgoUML... but
that's another story.

Thanks for the help.