Thanks for the clean-up - I was trying && and not getting anywhere. That said, using the text field as an input method and then passing it on doesn't work either. <input name=id+"/manage_editProperties:method" type="submit" class="form-element" value="Save Changes" / > If it helps - I'd like the user to be able to modify the properties of a DTML Document that they choose from a single edit form. I'm fine if I specify the path but I need them to add the page name to the path, hence the addition before the /manage_editProperties:method Katie -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan [mailto:dev101@magma.ca] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:49 PM To: Kate Legere; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] adding value to the path ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate Legere" <klegere@kfpl.ca> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:38 PM Subject: [Zope] adding value to the path

When I submit this:

<input name="branch/manage_editProperties:method" type="submit" class="form-element" value="Save Changes" / >

It works very nicely. I'd like the user to choose the page to amend so I have a select option to choose the page (in this case the one named 'branch'

<select size="3" width="100" name="pageName"> <dtml-in "getParentNode().objectItems('DTML Document')" > <dtml-if "id() != 'index_html'"> <dtml-if "id() != 'editProperties'"> <option value="<dtml-var id>"> <dtml-var title_or_id></option> </dtml-if> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> </select>

And I think this ought to work.. but it doesn't...

<input name=document.propForm.pageName.value+"/manage_editProperties:method" type="submit" class="form-element" value="Save Changes" / >

It does absolutely nothing.

How do I pass it the value to the input name?

You create a separate html input tag that gets the information you require from the user, eg Enter Id: <input type="text" name="id:UTF-8:string" size="30" value=""/> If you already have some information that you want to pass along to the receiving method (ie. this information does not come from user input) then use a "hidden" input: <input type="text" name="id:UTF-8:string" size="30" value="<dtml-var someIdvar>"/> P.S. i just couldn't let this go:

<dtml-if "id() != 'index_html'"> <dtml-if "id() != 'editProperties'"> <option value="<dtml-var id>"> <dtml-var title_or_id></option> </dtml-if> </dtml-if>

is simpler as:

<dtml-if "id() != 'editProperties' and id() !=index_html"> <option value="<dtml-var id>"> <dtml-var title_or_id></option> </dtml-if>

Jonathan