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Turning an Application into a Zope Product


A Zope product is an object that defines information and objects that can be used throughout a Zope installation. The most common use for a product is to provide facilities for adding specialized objects, or for adding objects in a specialized fashion. Products are managed in the products folder of the Zope control panel (see "Control Panel".)

The first step in converting an application to a product is to create a new Product in the Products folder. To create a new product, select the Products Management folder in the control panel's Contents view, as show in Figure 26 . Here we add a product by clicking on the "Add" button and entering the "Id" as InstantSite and "Title" as Instant Site Web Site Builder, shown in Figure 27 .

Products folder

 

Add product form

 

After clicking the "Generate" button, we select the new product in the products folder to display its Contents view (Figure 28 ).

A product is managed much like an ordinary Zope Folder. However, products have two unique features, an extra item in their Add List to create factory objects and a Distribute view for creating product distributions.

A new product folder

 

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