Manipulating objects¶
Introduction¶
Manipulating objects depends on whether they are based on the Archetypes subsystem or on the Dexterity subsystem.
For more information, consult the manual of the relevant subsystem:
- Archetypes examples.
- See Manipulating Content Objects in the Dexterity manual
Reindexing modified objects¶
After modifying the object, you need to reindex it in the
portal_catalog
to update the search and listing information.
Cataloging has a quirk regarding the
modified
metadata: when calling
reindexObject
on an object, the value for
modified
in
portal_catalog
will be set to the time of the reindex, regardless of the
value of the modified property of the object.
In order to store the correct value you can do an extra
reindex of the object with the
modified
index as parameter.
First do a normal
reindexObject, then call it with the modified index explicitly:
object.reindexObject()
object.reindexObject(idxs=['modified'])
For more information, see ** How to update this document.