How do I get the location field to show anything in plone-4.x collections

Question

I am trying to use a collection that will list items by state and provide a link to them in the location field of a table listing. The reason the location is important is that the same item can be added to lots of different folders/objects, so the title and type is not informative enough. Anyway, my problem is that the location gives a blank entry in the table displaying the collection. I have tried this for all types of items on my site: pages, folders, custom dexterity content types, etc.. Any hints?

Present configuration is Plone-4.3

Thanks.

Answer 1

The "location" field you are using is probably the ones only populated by the Event content type (please, check it).

If I'm not wrong, you can:

1. add a new index to the catalog that index the getLocation attribute, that will load the "Location" metadata; then add a new collection configuration for loading this new metadata
2. add a new indexer that will load the getLocation information using the same "location"

The 1 is the easy way (probably you can do all TTW) but way 2 is cleaner (but require some development)