RE: [Zope] adding value to the path

13 Feb 2007

      Thanks for the clean-up - I was trying && and not getting anywhere. 

That said, using the text field as an input method and then passing it on
doesn't work either.

 <input name=id+"/manage_editProperties:method" type="submit"
class="form-element" value="Save Changes" / >

If it helps - I'd like the user to be able to modify the properties of a
DTML Document that they choose from a single edit form. I'm fine if I
specify the path but I need them to add the page name to the path, hence the
addition before the /manage_editProperties:method

Katie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan [mailto:dev101@magma.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:49 PM
To: Kate Legere; zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] adding value to the path

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kate Legere" <klegere@kfpl.ca>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: [Zope] adding value to the path
...
When I submit this:
<input name="branch/manage_editProperties:method" type="submit"
class="form-element" value="Save Changes" / >
It works very nicely.
I'd like the user to choose the page to amend so I have a select option to
choose the page (in this case the one named 'branch'
<select size="3" width="100" name="pageName">
   <dtml-in "getParentNode().objectItems('DTML Document')" >
       <dtml-if "id() != 'index_html'">
         <dtml-if "id() != 'editProperties'">
            <option value="<dtml-var id>"> <dtml-var title_or_id></option>
         </dtml-if>
       </dtml-if>
    </dtml-in>
  </select>
And I think this ought to work.. but it doesn't...
<input 
name=document.propForm.pageName.value+"/manage_editProperties:method"
type="submit" class="form-element" value="Save Changes" / >
It does absolutely nothing.
How do I pass it the value to the input name?
You create a separate html input tag that gets the information you require 
from the user, eg

Enter Id:  <input type="text" name="id:UTF-8:string" size="30" value=""/>

If you already have some information that you want to pass along to the 
receiving method (ie. this information does not come from user input) then 
use a "hidden" input:

<input type="text" name="id:UTF-8:string" size="30" value="<dtml-var 
someIdvar>"/>

P.S.  i just couldn't let this go:
...
<dtml-if "id() != 'index_html'">
         <dtml-if "id() != 'editProperties'">
            <option value="<dtml-var id>"> <dtml-var title_or_id></option>
         </dtml-if>
       </dtml-if>
is simpler as:
...
<dtml-if "id() != 'editProperties' and id() !=index_html">
            <option value="<dtml-var id>"> <dtml-var title_or_id></option>
         </dtml-if>
Jonathan