Menno Brandsen wrote:

Hello all, I have a question conserning deleting objects(images) by the user

The situation is this :

I have a page that lists the contents of the folder below, containing images of a site. In that list a want to let the user/client delete the image that he wants.

I've tried using this syntax :

<a href="#" onClick="<dtml-call "image_folder.manage_delObjects(ids=_['id'])">"> DELETE </a>

What happens now is that as soon as the page loads it inmediatly deletes the images. Can anybody tell me a sollution for this problem ? I would be very gratefull ! =)

Greetings, Menno Brandsen

This is a question better served on the main Zope mailing list. That said, here is the answer: All DTML is executed on the server before the page goes to the client. That is why your images get deleted by viewing the page. The onclick attribute is only useful for executing client side scripts like JavaScripts, etc. To execute server side code, you must make the user request the method that deletes the images. This is done by sending the server a page request. So, you need to create two objects in Zope to accomplish this. One that displays the images and another that deletes the requested image and redraws (by a redirect) the image display page. Here's an example: dtml method view_images: <dtml-in name="objectValues('Image')"> <dtml-var name="sequence-item"> <a href="&dtml-absolute_url;/delete_image">Delete this image</a> </dtml-in> dtml method delete_image: <dtml-if expr="meta_type == 'Image'"> <dtml-call expr="manage_delObjects(getId())"> <dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.redirect(URL2 + '/view_images')"> </dtml-if> This code is generic enough so that it would work in any folder. You could place these methods above the folder(s) containing the images for greater generality. It might seem a bit confusing how this works if you don't understand acquisition. The view_images method creates a link to each image in the folder you call it for. The link is to the image object itself with the delete_image method appended. This tells Zope to call delete_image in the context of the image the user selects. manage_delObjects is not a method of the image, but the image acquires it from the Folder that contains it. So delete_image passes the id of the image (using getId()) to the manage_delObjects method of the folder containing it. It then redirects back to the view_images method which will be sans the deleted image. hth -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>