Re: [Plone-Users] looking for help with separating logic and presentation - Plone 2.5

[Stan M. <sf...@gm...>]

Never mind - it's a browser view class.  My Zope 3 knowledge is still
academic. ;)

-stan

On Oct 23, 5:07 pm, Stan McFarland <sfmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ross,  thanks for responding.  I'm afraid my ignorance is showing -
> exactly what is a "view base class?"  Keep in mind that we're still on
> Plone 2.5 - is that a Zope 3 construct?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Stan
>
> On Oct 23, 4:33 pm, Ross Patterson <m...@rpatterson.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Stan McFarland <sfmc...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Here's my situation.  I'm building a site that will involve displaying
> > > data returned from many different types of queries - folder contents
> > > listings, keyword queries, date range queries, etc.  But all results
> > > will be displayed to the user in a consistent fashion.   Ideally, I
> > > only want to write the "display" part one time.    How can I separate
> > > my business and presentation logic in different templates/scripts so
> > > that I can execute a query in one and then pass the returning sequence
> > > of brains to a common "display" template?
>
> > You could create a view base class and a corresponding template.  Then
> > you could subclass that view class in multiple views, implement the
> > query specifics in those views and use the same template with them all.
>
> > You could also create collections that each have the right criteria for
> > each of your queries.  Then you could use one of the existing collection
> > display layouts or create a new one to use on all collections.
>
> > HTH,
> > Ross
>
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