Hi Tino,

 

thanks again - it's great that you are such an active member of the Mailing List. I must admit, I haven't understood your answer completely [newbie]. Would you mind explaining a little more? I have already created a design and I don't want to make input and sql-drop down on the same page.. Is it still possible? I didn't understand if your answer's 2nd part was a solution for the javascript-window design. 

 

> If you make the query to the display-page with
> GET, you should be able to trigger reload on the window
> with JavaScript. At least you would have all parameters
> in the URL.
> If thats not possible, you could put your values into
> hidden form fields and reissue the form via form submit.
> The simplest solution would be to make the target of the
> input form to the display window and reload your input
> window from there (or dont even reload it).

This is the part I haven't understood completely. Could you try to "fill" it with DTML so that I get a deeper insight :-)? How would I do it with GET? What's the difference between GET and POST (I have read the docs, I simply don't understand the difference for Zope! And: what if you don't supply any method=GET or =POST statements in your forms as done in the Zope Tutorial?). And more importantly: was your answer above related to javascript-window solution or "all in one page"-solution? I would need a suggestion for the javascript-window one.

 

My original idea was something like:

 

a) on the main site with sql-dropdown the link ("Create new drop-down entry")... [just a

    mindmap, no working code!!]:

 

   there's a link to the popup which passes the current REQUEST:

   <a href="<dtml-var URL>?<dtml-var REQUEST>"> or whatever...

 

b) when clicking refresh in the javascript window:

    top.refresh "mainSite(REQUEST)"

 

Again, is such REQUEST passing possible? Or: do you have a better idea?

 

 

Thanks again,

Philipp