[John Hunter]>
I have several pages where I want to list some information about patients in my database, and want to have a single DTML method called listPatient which takes pid (patient id) as an arg and lists the information for that patient. The basic idea is that I have many DTML Documents that need to list patients in a variety of contexts, and I want to have a single method that controls how patients are listed, so as I upgrade my database I won't have to change the patient listing format in many places
Something like
<dtml-in expr="get_pids()" mapping> <dtml-call expr="listPatient( 'pid=%s' % <dtml-var pid>)" > </dtml-in>
But I am having trouble figuring out how to set up a DTML method to get an argument like this. Is this possible? Can you recursively nest DTML methods/documents?
Once you are within a dtml tag, you do not need to nest dtml tags, you just refer to things by their names, as in <dtml-call expr="listPatient( pid=pi)" > This can be simplified to <dtml-call "listPatient(pid=pi)"> Of course, "pi" has to be a variable known to the page containing the code. Try to keep things simple whenever you can. Cheers, Tom P