Covers cannot link to other cover items?

[fredvd]

We're still maintaining a few cover installations and one of the webmasters asked us this week why he cannot select a cover as a target in for example the content chooser.

Covers are not selectable as linkable items in the cover control panel and the vocabulary feeding the control panel field explicitly fiters out the cover CT:

items = [i for i in items if i.token != 'collective.cover.content']

(at

collective.cover/src/collective/cover/vocabularies.py

Line 100 in efb4d03

items = [i for i in items if i.token != 'collective.cover.content']

)

But why can't a cover link to another cover? Is something recursive being triggered? Or is it only there to also avoid linking to the same cover? The line seems to be there since the first import to github almost 10 years ago.

[hvelarde]

I don't know and I don't think @frapell remembers why he did so in first place.

just go ahead if you think it's a valid use case.

[frapell]

@hvelarde The vocabulary was introduced in 9f74a8d by you :)

I have no idea why covers were specifically excluded

[hvelarde]

then I don't remember :-)