Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): Re: TIP #43 (Proposed) Adding object_name to acs_objects

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Posted by Don Baccus on
OK, to clarify ... if we're going to ratinonalize the object structure, for instance adding the "title" field to objects, at some point we'll want to remove the redundant title field from CR objects and rely on the title field of the base acs_object type.

We can't do this right away and need to think about upgrade scripts.  Code that uses the special views created for content_types can perhaps remain unchanged because our upgrade scripts can rewrite the views to use the proper title field.

Timo ... better make sure the new title field is at least as large as the one in CR objects.

But Mark, don't worry, we won't take any steps that can't be solved in an upgrade process.  I just want folks to understand that our goal is to simplify and unify the object/content item issue, not to further divorce the two by maintaining redundant fields!