“AttributeError: queryMethodId” when creating an object

While working on a client project, I created an (Archetypes based) content type with a text field. After adding a custom view as the default view, I got an AttributeError when I tried to add a new object.

Some details about the content type:

• It includes a TextField which uses the RichWidget (read: TinyMCE).
• I changed the default_view setting from folder_listing to view in the Generic Setup configuration file (types/WikiPage.xml in my case).

Whenever I tried to add a new object, I got the following traceback:

  ...
  Module zope.tal.talinterpreter, line 583, in do_setLocal_tal
  Module zope.tales.tales, line 696, in evaluate
    - URL: file:home/mark/eggs/Products.TinyMCE-1.2.11-py2.6.egg/Products/TinyMCE/skins/tinymce/tinymce_wysiwyg_support.pt
    - Line 6, Column 2
    - Expression: <PathExpr standard:u'object|here'>
    - Names:
      {'container': <PloneSite at /site>,
        ...
        'user': <PropertiedUser 'admin'>}
  Module zope.tales.expressions, line 217, in __call__
  Module Products.PageTemplates.Expressions, line 155, in _eval
  Module Products.PageTemplates.Expressions, line 117, in render
  Module Products.CMFDynamicViewFTI.browserdefault, line 76, in __call__
  Module Products.CMFPlone.PloneFolder, line 122, in __call__
AttributeError: queryMethodId

If I removed the text field or set the default view back to folder_listing, the error did not present itself.

To make a long story short: in the end it appears to be an issue with Products.TinyMCE version 1.2.11. And since that version is included in Plone 4.1.5, I spent quite some time figuring out why my new content type didn’t work while a similar content type in an older project did. Figuring I had done something wrong, I did not immediately realise that the older project was using Plone 4.1.4 (and thus an older version of Products.TinyMCE that does not have this issue)…

The solution: pin Products.TinyMCE to version 1.2.12. Or you could just use Plone 4.1.6 or 4.2, which both include the fixed version by default.