[Product-Developers] plone.app.portlets: how to add new field to existing schema?

[Johannes Raggam]

hi,

in that case, it was a portlet created by me, where i decided to add a
new field to it. it's in collective.gallery and it's not released now,
but toutpt is also working on it and would get an error if there is no
upgrade path.

i guess this will be an collective.developermanual article :)

hannes


On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 04:32 -0800, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
> 
> johannes raggam wrote:
> > 
> > hey all,
> > 
> > how can i add a new schema field to an already registered portlet?
> > 
> > when i want to visit the edit form of the portlet, i get an error,
> > saying that the new attribute does not exist. for me, it seems that this
> > is a but somewhere between plone.app.portlets and zope.formlib.
> > 
> 
> I'd suggest don't modify an existing portlet, but subclass it and create
> totally new portlet with extended schema.
> 
> E.g. News portlet -> My News Portlet (containing extra field)
> 
> 
> 
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