[Product-Developers] location field on Dexterity based content types

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 08/05/2011 12:02 AM, David Glick wrote:
> On 8/4/11 2:56 PM, Héctor Velarde wrote:
>> in Archetypes location is declared in ExtensibleMetadata.py as:
>>
>>           # Location, also known as Coverage in the DC metadata 
>> standard,
>> but we
>>           # keep the term Location here for historical reasons.
>>           StringField(
>>               'location',
>>               # why no accessor? http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6424
>>               searchable=True,
>>               widget = StringWidget(
>>                   label = _(u'label_location', default=u'Location'),
>>                   description=_(u'help_location_dc',
>>                                 default=u'The geographical location
>> associated with the item, if applicable.'),
>>                   ),
>>           ),
>>
>> why this was not included in the standard IDublinCore behavior?
>>
> I honestly can't remember; it was probably an oversight. Do you think 
> it's important to add it?

My guess would be because almost nobody uses the field. Personally I'ld 
rather have it removed (and especially its catalog index).

Wichert.