[z3-five] Using vocabularies for Choice fields where the vocabulary is acquired

[Ross Patterson]

Hanno Schlichting <plone at hannosch.info>
writes:

> Hi Ross,
>
> Ross Patterson wrote:
>>> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure that my approach is by any means good or advisable but you
>>>> could take a look at the PortalTypesVocabulary in
>>>> plone.app.controlpanel.vocabularies and its usage on the search control
>>>> panel defined by the ISearchSchema in search.py in the same package.
>> 
>> Ive been getting up to speed on Z3 schemas and I was wondering why
>> plone.app.vocabularies uses vocabularies instead of sources?
>
> As my first sentence should have told you, I'm by no means an expert or
> even an advanced user of formlib. So vocabularies were just what I found
> working for me quite easily.
>
> I know there have been some talk on the Zope3 mailing list a while back
> that vocabularies are going to be deprecated in favor of sources
> someday, but it also sounded like sources are not yet as well documented
> and easy to use.
>
> If you could enlighten us how to use sources instead for one of the
> vocabularies currently in plone.app.vocabularies that would be awesome.
>
> Thx,
> Hanno

Ok, as I educate myself I'll try and submit some patches back.
Thanks!

Ross