Hei!

I have with zope developed some simple e-learning program which

teach users safety and security topics such as “fire protection”, “first aid”,

“environmental policy” and so on. It is intended for hotel staff personnel.¨

The program is actually only a large number of web pages with information.

As in a book this information is divided into chapters and subchapters.

In zope this is done using folders. I have one folder called “Fire_protection”,

one called “First_aid” and so on. These folders then have their subfolders,

and subsubfolders. These folders share some methods like the

standard_html_header, standard_html_footer, and a method for generating a

table of contents at the first page in each chapter or subchapter.

Now, at the bottom of each page, I have some navigation buttons. Depending

on where you are in the learning program these are:

“previous”, “next”, “table of contents”, “first topic” and “back to start”. The

buttons are generated using a form action method like this:

<td>

<form action="<dtml-var first_topic>">

<div class="form-element">

<input class="form-element" type="submit" value="First Topic">

</div>

</form>

</td>

The <dtml-var first_topic> refers to a property with the name “first-topic” that I

manually give to the folder which holds the first topic in this chapter. The value

of this property could for instance be “fire_protection_11”. Consequently, I have

manually, and for each folder and subfolder on the entire site, created properties

for “previous”, “next”, “table of contents” and “first topic”. Each time I create some

subchapter somewhere in the site, I have to manually change the

values of these navigation properties in the neighbor previous and next subchapter. This in

order to have their navigation buttons point to my new subchapter.

This is not very dynamic. Ideally I should have one navigation method in the rootfolder,

that created all the navigation buttons on all the pages of each chapter and subchapter

automatically. And if I added or deleted some chapter (folder) somewhere in the site, this navigation

method should automatically update my navigation buttons. Do you have any idea of

how I could create such a navigation method, or in any other way accomplish this?

Best wishes and kind regards

Børge Kjeldstad