On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Craig Allen wrote:
I guess I'll have to answer it myself.<g>
I realized I could make javascript generate a random number as part of the request. This doesn't solve the need for uniqueness but with a large enough range and anticipating a low volume of requests I should be able to devise a workaround.
If anyone can tell me how the unique randon keys could/should be generated within Zope, that would be preferable, and I'd learn something.
If the randomness of the keys is not a requirement (ie you just want to generate unique ids, then add a property of type integer in the containing folder and increment it everytime you need a new id. Assuming for instance, thet the integer property is called unique_id, then the following dtml will acvieve what you want: <!--# call "manage_changeProperties(unique_id=unique_id+1)"--> <!--# call "manage_addFolder("Folder"+_.str(unique_id), "Folder"+_.str(unique_id),0,0,REQUEST)"--> The above will add a new folder with id and title(Folder1, Folder2, etc) If you do want to use a random id then you can use an external method: import whrandom def random_id(self): '''random_id(self) returns a random id of type Folder<random number>""" id='Folder'+str(whrandom.randint(1,1000)) while id in self.objectIds(): id='Folder'+str(whrandom.randint(1,1000) return id Pavlos