Therapy or not, I spoke too soon. I did manage to get a time in as part of the title. Unfortunately, the time that I got was ZopeTime(). What I want to get in is the time (really a date) set by the user. This date is taken in as input from the form page, it is then sent to a DTML Method that then calls the Python script. As I mentioned before, the parameter in question is "contact_date". If I try to set myTitle = '%d' % contact_date then I get an error. However, if I try to set myTitle = '%d' % report_title then I don't get an error. The report_title parameter was set in the DTML Method that was called by the HTML form. that code is <dtml-let report_title="ZopeTime()"> Unfortunately, if I set <dtml-let report_title=contact_date> I get an error. Note, the </dtml-let> is AFTER the call to the python script. Is there something I'm missing? TIA, Ron

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Is there something therapeutic/magical about this list?

Of course, you didnt know ;)

BTW I normally set the id equal to the time in secs... which gives a horrible url but has *loads* of other advantages. -- Andy McKay.

----- Original Message ----- From: <complaw@hal-pc.org> To: <complaw@hal-pc.org>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Getting a date into an object title - DISREGARD

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Why is it that within 5 minutes after posting a notice on this list that I figure out a solution to the problem?

Is there something therapeutic/magical about this list?

Ron

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I want to put a date value into a DTML Document title so that when the DTML Documents are sorted by their title, they will automatically be sorted by date. (Incidentally, the title also has some other non-date information.)

I've tried various schemes and they don't work. I'm using the Zope book template for creating the DTML Documents (which are loaded by the users who don't have manage access). This means that I have a form to gether information (including the contact date, which is transmitted from the form as "contact_date"). The form calls an DTML method that calls a Python script which creates the DTML Document.

Any hints, either in DTML or for the Python script, would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Ron

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