How to tell from the Plone GUI what code executes behind the scenes
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T. Kim Nguyen
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last modified
Aug 29, 2011 02:41 PM
e.g. you want to programmatically add or delete objects, or do something in a script that you know you can do via the GUI
Q: how do you delete an object?
A: here's how you can tell:
- look at a folder in a Plone site
- click the Actions menu, put your mouse over the Delete choice, right click, copy the link
- or look at the browser status bar to see what URL you'd go to if you clicked on the menu item
- search for that script (what comes after the '?') in the ZMI -> portal_skins using the Find tab
- the other way is to look at a folder in the ZMI, and if you have the DocFinder tab (Products.DocFinder), it will show you all the methods available on that folder











