-----Original Message----- From: Mayfield, Weatherby <weatherby.mayfield@eds.com> To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org> Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 3:36 PM Subject: [Zope] Creating and Updating ZClass instances

I'm trying to set up a simple trouble-ticket type application using Zope. I defined a ZClass for the individual tickets and added a few instances through the management screens. That all worked fine. But here's the catch -- I want the users to be able to create and update tickets through the regular web site rather than through the management screens and I can't figure out how to do that. Is it possible? I keep having the feeling that what I'm trying to do is really simple but I just can't quite grasp it yet.

It is pretty straightforward. How exactly you set it up will probably depend on your security requirements... The general process would be to make a DTML method for updating an item that posts to another DTML method. The "update" method would do something like: <form method="post" action="SaveChanges"> <input type="text" name="name" value="&dtml-name;"> <textarea name="problem">&dtml-problem;</textarea> <input type="submit" value="Save Changes"> </form> then the "SaveChanges" method could do something like: <dtml-call "propertysheets.basic.manage_changeProperties(REQUEST)"> (replacing "basic" with the name of your propertysheet) <dtml-call reindex_object> (if it is a CatalogAware object) KM|net News has a working example of this, if you drill down to the KMArticle ZClass and look at the "edit" and "postit" methods. Kevin