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View an object's catalog information

This How-to applies to: Plone 2.5.x, Plone 2.1.x, Plone 2.0.x
This How-to is intended for: Server Administrators, Integrators, Customizers, Developers

This little utility is really useful to me. I'm not sure it's posted elsewhere, it comes from Joel Burton originally. Inspect any content on your site (including folders) by appending /getCatInfo to the URL.

In your Plone root, from the ZMI, add a Script (Python). Give it the id getCatInfo, and use the code below:

from string import join
obid = context.id
path = join(context.getPhysicalPath(), '/') 
results = container.portal_catalog(path=path,getID=obid,sort_on='created',sort_order='reverse')
rid = ''
for r in results:
     rid = r.getRID()
if rid:
     print container.portal_catalog.manage_objectInformation(rid=rid)
else:
     print "Not in the catalog, apparently."
return printed

After you save this, you can append /getCatInfo to any Plone URL to get complete catalog information about the page, folder, link, etc. you are looking at.

 

by Dan Thomas — last modified June 8, 2007 - 21:51
Contributors: Joel Burton
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origins of this script

Posted by Lupa Zurven at October 11, 2007 - 22:12
I don't know about Joel's contribution to this script, nor do I remember (unfortunately) where I got my own inspiration for this script, but it is mine in this form, as can be seen in my post at ZopeLabs here: http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1111384141

(easy to find with a search in google for the "Not in the catalog, apparently." quote, not so easy to find any other way. thanks for posting it here on plone.org... +lupa+ :-)

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