-----Original Message----- From: The Dragon De Monsyne [mailto:dragondm@integral.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:40 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Basic Zope Documentation?

I've been looking for some documentation of so very basic Zope features, and have been going nuts trying to find it.

Basically I',m looking for info on things like objectValues(). _I_ know you use objectValuee to get the contents of a folder, but _where_ is there docs that say that? (and how you use it)

objectValues and it's brethren are documented in the online help, under 'Object Manager'. This is probably not the easiest place for a new person to find it.

Plus things like id, title, title_or_id (which are methods as I found out after much irritation, (I'd thought they were attrbutes)),

In some cases they are computed attributes, others methods, and some even plain attributes.

and there are others I know (but I don't know what they are, since I can't find a list of them).

The DTML manual covers a good bit of the builtin stuff.

Like I said _I_ know these things, but I'm putting together a community site for Authors and Artists, and _they_ won't, and if there isn't some good docs I can point 'em to I'll be getting emails asking 'how do I get the last changed date for my document', & 'How do I list stuff in a folder' a dozen times a day.

This could be tricky. Keep in mind however, that there are some serious long term documentation projects going on for the benefit of everyone. It's a huge task though. I think something like a DTML quick reference card would be handy though. -Michel

(Yes, I've already looked at the online help, the User's Guides, and the ZDP site.)

-The Dragon De Monsyne

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