I know I can map methods to permissions and so have the Zope machinery take care of testing whether the user has permission to call a method, but say I want to decide whether to display an 'Edit' button on the page depending on whether the user has the appropriate permission for editing. How do I test for the user having this permission - is there some kind of hasPermission() method I can use? I could make an assumption about which roles have which permissions and call hasRole(), but that doesn't seem right to me* - I don't think my code should care about what roles the user has, only whether they have the required permission.
With: <dtml-if expr="AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_permission('Edit','PARENTS[0]')"> <a href="<dtml-var absolute_url>/manage_main">Edit</a> </dtml-if> in a method called from a document, it works for me. HTH, -- Tim Cook, President - FreePM,Inc. http://www.FreePM.com Office: (901) 884-4126 ONLINE DEMO: http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM