[collective-cmfmember] Confused: SubClassing CMFMember and ATSchemaEditor

[Jock C. <joc...@jc...>]

Though I've been playing with Plone and Zope for, wow, a couple of  
years now I have not so far got down to too much mucking around in  
code.  But now I want to create a customised member type with lots of  
additional data to collect (it's for an alumni site so I want  
eventually to capture data about when they left the school and so on).

So, I followed this:

http://plone.org/products/archetypes/documentation/old/wiki/ 
SubclassCMFMember/

...to see if I could get such a basic customisation going.  After  
some fiddling (mostly because of typos in the code) I finally got the  
new type, AlumniMember to show up in the quickinstaller and to  
install with no apparent errors.

However, when I then create a Plone site, install CMFMember and  
AlumniMember, migrate to CMFMember, I would then expect to see  
"AlumniMember" available in the available member type field.  But it  
doesn't seem to appear.  If I install Samplex, the SamplexMember type  
shows up and allows me to set it as default, but not my one.  Nor is  
there any entry for my type in the archetypes_tool.  So I'm thinking  
I have failed to register the type properly.  But it's not entirely  
clear from the LiMi document cited above where i am supposed to do that.

Further to all this, I wanted to use the basic subclass idea as a  
basis on which I could then use ATSchemaEditor to give it some more  
fields.  If I set the USE_SCHEMA_EDITOR = True line in the config.py  
of CMFMember it seems to throw errors during the migration about not  
finding the Schema - something I've seen mentioned in other posts on  
this list but not quite understanding how to rectify it.

Do I need to turn USE_SCHEMA_EDITOR on for CMFMember, or somewhere  
for my subclass only?  It is, after all, only my Subclass I actually  
want to edit!

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Can provide code.

And am using Zope 2.8.4-final, python 2.3.5, linux2
Plone 2.1.1 on CMF 1.5.4, Archetypes 1.3.5 final, CMFMember 1.1beta2,  
and ATSchemaEditorNG 0.3.2

Cheers,

Jock Coats
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