Folks, I got this working. Since the fix wasn't obvious, I'm documenting it here. ZClass objects inherit from ZObject. Apparently, either a ZObject does not have a "title" attribute, or at the very least, does not have a "title" attribute that you can change. The fix is to make sure that your ZClass has a "title" property. Once you do this, constructor code like the example below will set the "title" property without error, and a title for the object will appear in the ZMI. Cheers, Rob Rob Thorne wrote:

Using 2.6.1, I'm trying to get the constructor of a ZClass to dynamically assign the ID, and set the title from data passed to the constructor. Setting the ID works fine; setting the title isn't working at all.

From the constructor:

*# Create an ID dynamically timestamp = "SHLH-%X" % int(context.ZopeTime()) request.set('id', timestamp)

request.set('title', 'My title') #request.set('title', request.form['Sender_Name'])

instance = container.MyZClass.createInObjectManager(request['id'], request) *

Why does this work for 'id', but not for 'title'? Older code samples using dtml seem to have set both attributes the same way.

Thanks, Rob** **

-- Rob Thorne Torenware Networks http://www.torenware.com