When calling DTML Methods in this way you have what might be described as a shortage of namespace. The namespace of the current request is not passed through to the caled method, so you need to pass it through: <dtml-var "fathersInfo.index_html(_.None,_)"> this should do what you want. hth Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "CLIFFORD ILKAY" <zopeList@dinamis.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Cc: "CLIFFORD ILKAY" <clifford_ilkay@dinamis.com> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Conditional Forms

Hi Hans,

Thanks so much for your quick reply. I tried using <dtml-var "fathersInfo.index_html()"> as you suggested. It gave me the following error message which makes no sense to me.

Error Type: NameError Error Value: global name 'fathersForm' is not defined

If I enter the folder fathersInfo and click on the View tab, it renders the form without a problem. fathersForm is a Formulator form/folder contained within the folder called fathersInfo. Any suggestions?

Regards,

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At 12:27 PM 2/11/02 +0000, hans wrote:

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CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

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Hi,

I have a page with a radio button group with three choices (Father, Mother, or Guardian) and a Submit button. I want to display a different form based upon the user choice. I have a folder called parentOrGuardianInfo. Within that folder are three folders, fathersInfo, mothersInfo, and guardiansInfo. Within those folders are the respective Formulator forms/folders. I am trying to do this:

<dtml-if "_['relationship'] == 'father'"> showFathersForm <dtml-elif "_['relationship'] == 'mother'"> showMothersForm <dtml-else> showGuardiansForm </dtml-if>

For showFathersForm, I tried doing:

<dtml-var "fathersInfo.index_html">

but that shows the dtml source rather than rendering the dtml source. How can I get it to render the dtml?

Regards,

<dtml-var "fathersInfo.index_html"> is an expr="..." attribute (that is, a valid python expression) and delivers the object, which in your case is dtml-source. to get the rendered dtml, you need to call it, like <dtml-var "fathersInfo.index_html()"> you might want to pass parameters also, in which case http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/AppendixB.dtml says __call__(client=None, REQUEST={}, **kw)

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