At 10:08 AM 1/2/01, Andy McKay wrote:
Im not sure what you mean by "hide it from the user", it all depends upon the rights you give your user.
In this case, I just meant that it shouldn't appear in the properties list for the particular page. I want to give the editor of the particular page's properties the ability to make a selection, but not the ability to change the list of possible selections.
If I create a lines property on my root folder called selection_list, I can then in folder /test/ make a property test_selection, type selection, value selection_list. The problem you may have is that you are trying to put it on another document, rather than on a folder in the acquistion path.
You're diagnosis is dead-on. I added my lines property to the containing folder and it worked perfectly. I'm still mystified, though, as to why I couldn't put the lines property in another document in the same folder and use the notation 'doc_id.lines_id' to refer to the lines property in the other document. Thanks, Steve
-- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve McMahon" <steve@suntype.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:36 AM Subject: [Zope] Selection and Lines Properties for DTML Docs
I'm new to Zope and am interested in the use of document properties for separating content and design in documents (i.e., using <dtml-var prop_name> in the "edit" tab to insert properties defined on the "properties" tab>.
I've had success with simple text properties and would like to be able to present the user with selection properties (choice 1, choice 2, ...). That works well when I first define a "lines" property, then a "selection" property. But, what I'd really like to do is hide the lines property from the user. I've tried putting a lines property in another document, then setting the selection value to 'source_doc.lines_prop'. That yields an error "No select variable source_doc.lines_prop."
Any ideas on the right way to do this? Please feel free to point me to good documentation! _________________________________________ Steve McMahon, SunType Publishing Systems steve@suntype.com voice & fax: (530) 757-7682 http://www.suntype.com
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