Supplementary views in Plone
This was originally posted on blogger here.
I want to provide several views for certain content types for content loaders to choose from in our project. The suppl_views attribute in the archetype is the place to define these alternate views. So in your content type you have this:
suppl_views = ('my_alternate_view',)
When the content loader goes to modify that particular content via the Plone front end, they could choose 'my_alternate_view' as one of the items under the display tab.
If you want to get fancy you can get this information in code as well:
# returns the supplement views.
MyType.suppl_views
# gets Factory Type Info on the portal type
fti = MyType.getTypeInfo()
# Lists all the views for a type with the default one first.
fti.getAvailableViewMethods(MyType)
Very handy and works in both Plone 2.5x and Plone 3.0x.
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