At 05:53 PM 9/25/2003, Lee J. McAllister wrote:
How stranded are we talking?
Still trying to get Zope up and running
That's never been a problem.
or are you stuck trying to build a new Product?
Trying to install a downloaded product.
I know I consider the Zope documentation to be excellent in points but it lacks connectivity. Individual points and tasks are generally explained extremely well but there's very little coverage on how to get from point A to point B or how those points interact. I've found that intelligent googling of the list archives has been at least as helpful, if not more so for me than the documentation overall.
Even trying to grok some simple concepts. e.g. one can specify parameters on a Script (Python) object, but nothing I can find explains how these parameters get values. In looking thru the Shopping Cart Example I found a form specifying in part <form action="addItems"> <input type="text" name="orders.quantity:records" ... where addItems is a script in the same container, and addItems specifies orders, REQUEST=None as parameters. What's missing for me is the relationship between the form and the parameter list. In another example I experimented with a Page Template calculateForm: ... <form action="calculateSum"> <input type="text" name="a" tal:attributes="value request/a"><br> <input type="text" name="b" tal:attributes="value request/b"><br> <input type="text" tal:attributes="value result"><br> <input type=submit value="Submit" name="Next10"> </form> ... where calculateSum is script: ## parameters a,b sum=int(a)+int(b) return container.calculateForm(result=sum) After clicking Submit the form reappears, with the values for a and b filled in. What is the magic that associates the values I entered for a and b with the request to display the form again? Bob Gailer bgailer@alum.rpi.edu 303 442 2625 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.506 / Virus Database: 303 - Release Date: 8/1/2003