Gordon, 1. my preferred way of doing this is creating a folder called "downloads" into which you drop the docs as file objects when you make updates. you can then replace a static link with something like this: <dtml-in "downloads.objectValues('File')" sort=bobobase_modification_time reverse size=1 orphan=0> <a href="<dtml-var absolute_url>">newsletter</a> </dtml-in> though i prefer to create a dtml method something like this: <dtml-with downloads> <form method=post action= name=> <select size=1 name=newsletters onChange="top.location.href=newsletters.options[this.selectedIndex].va lue"> <option selected>Choose a newsletter <option>------------------- <dtml-in "objectValues('File')"> <option value=&dtml-absolute_url;><dtml-var title> </dtml-in> </select> </form> </dtml-with> if you call the method e.g. getNewsletters, you just use <dtml-var getNewsletters> wherever you want a drop down to appear. 2. if you're on a *nix, you could probably hack up a script to pass the word docs to a translator, but you should probably check out: http://www.zope.org/Members/eric/MSWordDocument/ HTH, garry On 5 Dec 2001, at 23:22, Gordon Holtslander wrote: From: Gordon Holtslander <gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca> To: "Zope List (E-mail)" <zope@zope.org> Send reply to: gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca Subject: [Zope] 2 Questions about links and files Date sent: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 23:22:28 -0600
1. I have a local file system directory that has Word doc sermon outlines in it. I'd like to have a link to the most recent of those files, but I don't want to change it manually. Is there some way to have the link point to the most recent file?
2. Obviously, not everyone has Word on their system. Is there some way to dynamically take a word doc from the directory and turn it into a "browser doc" so everyone can see it. I don't want to change the Word docs permanently because people still need and use them as Word docs. I don't want to have to manually transform all of them into html, although if that was the least painful method of dealing with this I could. There are about 85 docs now, but there are at least 2 and as many as 9 added each week.
Thanks in advance,
Gord
Gordon W. Holtslander Director of Development & Information Technology The Lung Association - Saskatchewan gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca <mailto:gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca>
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