Question

I would like to use collective.easytemplate to generate templated emails (for content rules). However, I am not sure if it can output an objects workflow state. Anybody know if it is possible and how it is done?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can, it is possible, and one way is to use the portal_workflow tool e.g. from parts/omelette/plone/app/contentrules/tests/test_action_workflow.py:

 self.assertEquals('published', 
     self.portal.portal_workflow.getInfoFor(self.folder.d1, 'review_state'))

More generally, something like:

context.portal_workflow.getInfoFor(context, 'review_state')

in a page template should work. Or use the portal_catalog as Spanky suggests e.g. if “obj” is a catalog “brain” (i.e. part of a result set from a catalog search) then:

obj.review_state

should work.