I'm building an application dealing with multiple Departments, each with multiple members. Here's a short diagram of the folders in question

Department (department level information and forms)

+--Members (department Roster)

+--Individual (individual level information and forms)

+--Status (tracks status information and history)

The Members index_html (dtml_method) displays all of the active members (stored in a mySQL database), displaying each member as a link as follows ("Get" is a Z_SQLMethod)

<ul>

<dtml-in Get>

</dtml-in>

</ul>

This calls the Individual/index_html (a dtml_method), passing it member_number as expected. The Individual folder has a link allowing the user to add a status value for the individual

<a href="myserver/Memebrs/Individual/Status/AddForm/memno=&dtml-memno;;">Add Status</a><br>

This calls a dtml_document which renders a form to add a status for the individual. This form calls Status/Add (a dtml method) which in turn calls AddSQL (an Z_SQLMethod) to post the data to the database.

<dtml-var my_header>

<dtml-call "AddSQL()">

<dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect('Status')>

<dtml-call my_footer>

This post the data to my Status table, but fails on th redirect.

The problem I'm encountring is the redirect fails because the Status/index_html cannot find member_number. I thought that member_number would be in the Individual namespace, but it's nowhere to be found. Since the Individual folder will eventually have a lot of sub-folders (Addresses, Phones, Equipment, etc.) I would really like to use Acquisition rather than passing member_number explicitly. I've re-read the sections in "The Zope Bible" (pp 72+), "Web Application Construction Kit" (pp 82+), and "The Zope Book" (multiple places), but I guess I just don't get it.

How and Where do I set the member_number so that all of the sub-folders can "see" (acquire) it?

Thanks for your time and help.

Greg Lindstrom

Vilonia, Arkansas