John Poltorak wrote: (reposted to zope.org)

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:08:10PM +0100, bruno desthuilliers wrote:

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John Poltorak wrote:

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I would like to create a folder (news) which contains several news items, lets say news1, news2, news3.

I would like to set up a menu box which lists all the news items in the news folder which when clicked on would load each one up.

How do I code this up? (Hope someone understands what I'm getting at)

What's your question exactly ? How to create a new Folder-like type and the related news type ? How to create the html for the menu ? Something else ?

Forget 'news' for the moment, I was just using it as an example.

What I wanted to do was create a folder where I could place objects

Quite simple for now: create a folder and place objects inside !-)

and have them automatically appear on a selectable menu.

You mean a menu of links, or a select in a field ?

As an example I might have an 'events' folder where I had objects event1, event2, event3 so would want to see a list of selectable objects on a particular menu.

news.objectValues(['event']) method will give you the list of objects with meta_type 'event' contained in the folder with id 'news'. So Andrew's answer was almost ok: <tal:block define="news python: context.news.objectValues(['event']" > <ul tal:condition="news" tal:repeat="new news" > <li> <a tal:attributes="href news/absolute_url" tal:content="news/title">Link</a> </li> </ul> </tal:block> (replace html markup with what appropriate of course...) NB: see also objectIds() and objectItems() in the doc. HTH -- bruno desthuilliers développeur bruno@modulix.org http://www.modulix.com