-----Original Message----- From: Loren Stafford <lstafford@icompression.com> To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org> Date: vrijdag 31 maart 2000 23:03 Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog of method output
I read you could define a ZClass instance's method as a field-index of a ZCatalog; but it's not working for me.
The DTML method dept_code is simply:
<dtml-return "_.string.split(jobcode,'-')[0]">
When I call the method directly it returns a single character, the first character of the jobcode.
The method dept_code is defined as a field-index of the ZCatalog JobsCat. But when I access JobsCat thus:
<dtml-in "JobsCat(meta_type='Job Opening', sort_on='dept_code')"> <li> <a href="<dtml-var "JobsCat.getpath(data_record_id_)">"> (<dtml-var dept_code>) <dtml-var jobcode>: <dtml-var title></a> </dtml-in>
the items are not sorted, and dept_code is null.
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
As I understood it (but I may be wrong, cause I never understood why), a DTML method in a field index is only usable if it doesn't contain any variables anything, that is only if it contains only static values (like <dtml-return "'1,2,3,4'"> for example. If you want something executed as a property - use either an External Method or a Python Method. It was something about the Catalog not being able to feed arguments to a method, but I'd be glad if someone could explain this... Rik