ReferenceBrowserWidget: Programatically setting a startup_directory

[Eric Steele]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 10. April 2007 12:40:59 -0400 Eric Steele 
> <ems174 at psu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using ReferenceBrowserWidget (1.7.1) on my Person object ("John Doe"
>> below) to allow people to link to Specialty object in a
>> SpecialtiesFolder. I'd like to be able to set startup_directory to be the
>> path to my SpecialtiesFolder (which I won't know the exact name of).
>>
>> - "Directory" (FacultyStaffDirectory)
>>      - "Specialties" (SpecialtiesFolder)
>>          - "Some Specialty" (Specialty)
>>      - "John Doe" (Person)
>>
>>
>> Since, I don't know the name and can't hardcode a path, I've tried using
>> a method name as the value of startup_directory, but that's throwing an
>> AttributeError. Is there another/any way to do this?
>>
> 
> In this case you must extend the functionality of the 
> ReferenceBrowserWidget
> implementation. Your problem is an unsupported usecase. Patches are 
> welcome.
> 
> -aj
> 

Thanks. I'd be happy to take a crack at it. I've submitted my request 
for commit access.

Is this the place to be talking about this sort of thing, or is the 
Archetypes list more appropriate?

Eric