I'm just beginning my journey into Zopeland so please forgive my ignorance. I'd like to be able to give users a chance to edit records found in a table by selecting the desired record's checkbox and then clicking 'Modify'. This is similar to the Zope management screen. I just don't know how to approach it.
I can get Zope to generate a table and form like this from an SQL database. I'm stuck after that. The form only has one 'action' so how would I get it to handle the right function depending on the button that was pushed? I'm no HTML expert but I've looked around quite a bit for an answer and I can't seem to find any info on handling multiple submit buttons. Can Zope make this any easier? (using ZClasses, maybe?) I've also tried searching through the mail archives but I haven't found anything yet. (There are a lot of messages to go through them one at a time.)
My solution for this kind of problem is to have a DTML method that delegates to the appropriate DTML methods. Therefore each button gets a value and a name, eg. <input type=submit name=action value=delete> <input type=submit name=action value=modify> The DTML method delegating the calls looks like this: <dtml-try> <dtml-if "action == 'delete'"> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect('mthDelete')"> </dtml-if> <dtml-if "action == 'modify'"> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect('mthModify')"> </dtml-if> <dtml-except> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(HTTP_REFERER)"> </dtml-try> The except part catches the cases where an error occurs such like action is not determined. Beware of the fact that you might want to pass further parameters in order to determine the selected item or so. HTH Andreas Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co. Dipl. Inform. Andreas Wacknitz Abteilung TEE Triftweg 21-26 D-16547 Birkenwerder ********************************************************************** This email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co.