Adding field and index with a behavior

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1

I made a behavior that adds some fields.

For one of the fields (which is a ((datagridfield) list). I want to have an index.

  1. Is there other ways of adding an index than in profiles (meaning one has to install a product) ?
  2. Does it matter much what kind of index I use (now I use FieldIndex) when the field (with dicts) looks like this:

[ {name: 'something', email: 'some@email.com', phone: '123456'}, {name: 'somet', email: 'some2@email.com', phone: '213456'}]

2

How are you adding this behaviour?

3

in a zcml file, usually like this:

<plone:behavior
        title="My behaviour"
        description="Adds fields for xxx"
        provides=".behaviors.IMyBehavior"
        for="plone.dexterity.interfaces.IDexterityContent"
        />
4

Ah, so you are working on the file system. In that case, why do you stipulate that adding an index shouldn't require working on the file system?

5

Since the behavior shows up even if a profile is notinstalled, it would be better if one does not have to install anything.

In other words: If someone adds the behavior without installing the profile, it might break the view

6

I looked through plone.behavior and was hoping that maybe an event would be fired as soon as a behavior is assigned, but this doesn't seem to be provided (yet). Otherwise you could have hooked into that and check for and create an index...