Local File System - Properties: Manage the properties of a Local File System.
Description
This view allows you to edit and define properties on a Local File
System object.
File System properties
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title
- The optional title of the Local File System object.
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basepath
- The path to the directory in the file system where the Local
File System accesses its contents.
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username
- The username for Windows share that requires login information.
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password
- The password for a Windows share that requires login information.
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default_document
- A space-delimited list of files that Local File
System will display instead of the browsing the directory.
For example, if the default document is
index.html and a local
directory contains a file by that name, it will be displayed instead
of the default directory browse view.
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type_map
- Used to associate file extensions with content-types
and Zope object classes. It consists of a list of mappings, one per line.
Each line contains fields separated by tabs or spaces. The first field is
a file extension. The second field is a content-type associated with that
extension. The third field is optional and contains a Zope object class
to associate with the extension. Zope object classes can be specified in
one of several ways.
- The class can be DTMLDocument, DTMLMethod, Image, or File.
These object types are built into LocalFS.
File is the default object class if none is specified.
- The class can be specified using its full path including the
module name, i.e. "Products.XMLDocument.XMLDocument.Document".
If the class defines a method
createSelf(id, data) which
returns an object of this class, then this method will be
called as a static unbound member function to create the
object. This allows products to provide their own factory functions
to create objects from local files.
- If the class doesn't contain a factory function then an optional
fourth parameter to the mapping is the name of a factory class.
This class may be implemented in a file in the Extensions directory,
in which case the class should be specified as
"(module name).(class name)", or it may be in the Extensions directory
inside a product directory, in which case it should be specified as
"(product name).(module name).(class name)".
The factory class should define a __call__(self, id, data)
method which returns the object.
- If all of these methods fail then the object is created with the
default class of File.
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icon_map
- Associates a file's content-type with the icon used to
display the file in the directory browse view. The format is similar to
the type map. The first field contains a content-type. The second field
contains the path of the icon object displayed for that content-type in
the directory browse view. The icon can exist anywhere in the object tree,
but it must be a path that can be resolved by URL traversal. The default
icon is
misc_/LocalFS/generic.gif. All icons in the www subdirectory
of the LocalFS product are loaded into the misc_/LocalFS folder on startup.
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catalog
- Enabling this property causes objects in the local file system
to be included in ZCatalog searches. This can cause a significant performance
penalty especially when the file system contains many files or very large
files. It may also incur performance penalties in other areas having nothing
to do with cataloging. Enable this option only if necessary.
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tree_view
- Controls whether the Local File System object will be displayed
in the management tree and other instances of the tag.
Property types
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boolean
- 1 or 0.
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date
- A
DateTime value, for example 12/31/1999 15:42:52 PST.
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float
- A decimal number, for example
12.4.
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int
- An integer number, for example,
12.
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lines
- A list of strings, one per line.
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long
- A long integer, for example
12232322322323232323423.
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string
- A string of characters, for example
This is a string.
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text
- A multi-line string, for example a paragraph.
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tokens
- A list of strings separated by white space, for example
one two three.
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selection
- A string selected by a pop-up menu.
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multiple selection
- A list of strings selected by a selection list.
Controls
Editing Properties
Existing properties can be edited by selecting them.
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[Checkbox]
- Select the properties to change.
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Property
- The value of the property.
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Save Changes
- Changes the value of the selected properties.
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Delete
- Deletes the selected properties.
Creating new properties
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Id
- The id of the property.
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Type
- The type of the property.
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Value
- The value of the property.
**Note: When creating selection and multiple selection
properties, specify the name of another property (or method)
as the Value. This property (or method) should return a
list of strings will be used to provide choices for the
selection.**
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Add
- Creates a new property.