The ZMI sort of uses this concept. Click a header, it sorts one way. Click again, and it sorts the other way. If you dig into the code that builds the manage_edit page, you can easily see how its done. I built an Automotive Sales site using this and it works well. Dropdowns show unique values for each field. Selecting an option, displays a new page but now that dropdown is not there and the others only have unique values from the first query and so on. Each row has several fields. Clicking a field limits the next page to only items of that type and the dropdowns update as well. And the whole time, you can sort and resort each of the columns. Then at any time, you can click a VIEW link to see the detail of a car. Works really well and I am going to go back and redo 3 others sections of our site to use this same technique. Good luck. Allen -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Lindstrom Greg - glinds Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:24 PM To: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: [Zope] Help with Tables Greetings- I am in the process of designing three (count 'em 3) projects in Zope and have spotted a common theme running through them. I have pages which lists information stored in a Gadfly (for now) table via a ZSQLMethod. I would like to add the following features to my tables; 1. The ability to click on the column header to sort the table by that column (member number, name, etc.) 2. The ability to click on an entry in the table to bring up more information about the particular item. For example, clicking on a member number might bring up a form showing more information about the member. Is there documentation as how to go about doing this? Or can one of you point me to a page that does it already? Thanks! --greg Greg Lindstrom The limits of language are the limits of one's world --Ludwig von Wittgenstien ********************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )