Question

I have a custom folderish Dexterity content-type in Plone. It can have only Documents as children. I want these documents to be directly published as they are created.

I can achieve this easily by setting an appropriate workflow for the Document type, but that would affect every document in my site. I want only the ones inside my container type to be directly published.

Two options come to my mind:

Custom page

Create basically just a copy of the stock Document type and set its workflow to something that has only published state.

Event

Add IObjectAdded event for Documents and check if the parent of the new Document is my container type and do manual publishing in python code.

Neither sounds too nice. Do I have other options?

Answer 1

You just want the “Workflow Policy Support (CMFPlacefulWorkflow)” product (it’s a default part of Plone):

Add in Plone the capability to change workflow chains for types in every object.

You can set workflow on individual folders, or on that folder and all folders below it.