Hi, Robin Hmmm... user is a variable that is assigned when you first login. The source of the bottom frame when 'Jim' is logged in looks like: <CENTER><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> <TR><TD> <nobr><FORM ACTION="formframe" METHOD="POST"> Your message: <input name=user type=hidden value="Jim"> <textarea name=message rows=3 cols=50></textarea> <input type=submit value="Post Message"> </form></nobr> </TD><TD> <nobr><FORM ACTION="formframe" METHOD="POST"> <input name=user type=hidden value=""> <input type=submit value="Logoff"> </form></nobr> </TD></TR> </TABLE></CENTER> so user should be there in REQUEST.form, because it is passed in the hidden field. BUT the beginning of formframe only checks to see if there is [somewhere!] a non-nil variable called message, AHA! So, Robin, I will bet you have a 'message' on the acquisition path. If so, the right answer is: The first part of formframe should read: <dtml-if message> <dtml-if user> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('dt',ZopeTime())"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('id',dt.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')+user)"> <dtml-call "ChatItemClass_add(_.None, _, NoRedir=1)"> </dtml-if> </dtml-if> since we need both user and message here. Let me know if this works. My take-home lesson in this is that I definitely should use less popular variable names in an acquisition system. -- Jim Washington Shall we call this kind of bug "Spanish Acquisition"? It has a Pythonish ring... And few of us really expect it... Robin Becker wrote:
In message <38533F75.ECF42C90@vt.edu>, Jim Washington <jwashin@vt.edu> writes
Hi, Robin
Now I'm really curious about how to fix this. Could you send me the full error traceback?
What version of Zope are you using, OS, etc...
I don't like the idea of putting out products that don't work for some.
-- Jim Washington
... I am using latest CVS Zope on Win32.
I could try and download the latest binary and use that.
I have always been a bit concerned that some 'products' seem to conflict with others. I have quite a few products installed.
This is in the lowest frame.
Zope Error
Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.
Error Type: NameError Error Value: user
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Traceback (innermost last): File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 179, in publish File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 211, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: CatalogAware) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 165, in publish File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: formframe) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: formframe) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py, line 145, in __call__ (Object: formframe) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: formframe) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line 335, in eval (Object: ChatItemClass_add(_.None, _, NoRedir=1)) (Info: ChatItemClass_add) File <string>, line 0, in ? File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py, line 141, in __call__ (Object: ChatItemClass_add) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: ChatItemClass_add) File C:\Python\devel\Zope\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line 335, in eval (Object: REQUEST.set('id',dt.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')+'_'+user)) (Info: REQUEST) File <string>, line 0, in ? NameError: (see above)
-- Robin Becker