-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jurian Botha wrote:
I'm currently developing some customized ZMI pages and I was hoping someone could give me some insight into what the best way would be to do this.
I see that Zope 2 uses dtml methods to build the standard ZMI pages but as far as I know (Zope 3 wise) I should rather be using Zope Page Templates to build the pages.
I would also like the product to gracefully move on to Zope 3 in future, so that should be taken into consideration as well.
Are there perhaps some existsing templates for ZMI that can also be used with Zope 3?
You could choose to use a 'zmi_master' template which looked like so:: <metal:x metal:define-macro="master"> <tal:x tal:replace="structure context/manage_page_header" /> <tal:x tal:replace="structure context/manage_tabs" /> <div metal:define-slot="main"> Non-boilerplate goes here. </div> <tal:x tal:replace="structure context/manage_page_footer" /> </metal:x> If you registered that template as a view in your product's 'configure.zcml', e.g.: <browser:page for="*" name="zmi_master" template="zmi_master.pt" /> you can then use it in your own ZMI templates, e.g.: <html metal:use-macro="context/@@zmi_master/macros/master"> <body> <div metal:fill-slot="main"> <h1> Test ZMI Macro </h1> </div> </body> </html> I have attached a tarball of a simple Zope2 product which does this. After installation, you should be able to visit http://localhost:8080/zmi_test to see the results. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjQMy+gerLs4ltQ4RAvHpAJ4h8VuFM3M4v333UU4jB71CJgvNqgCfcnjf YMSO8d3hiDf5eMyG31nn9Ng= =fh+F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----