You could use FSCounter to do your counting: http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/wiki/FSCounter. There is a How-To on using unique_ids: http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/FSCounter/unique_ids In your code try explicilty using an int:

<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('my_number', _.int(my_number) + 1)"> -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState.

----- Original Message ----- From: "César A. K. Grossmann" <ckant@fazenda.gov.br> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: [Zope] Incrementing a form field

Hi!

I have a form that is used to insert some records to a database, and one of the fields is a sequence number. I want to increment this number when the form is used, unless is the first time it is loaded.

The form (idea copied from the SmartForms HOWTO) have the name "Register", and is something like this:

<dtml-var standard_html_header>

<dtml-if "REQUEST.REQUEST_METHOD=='POST'"> Record inserted. </dtml-if>

<dtml-if my_number> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('my_number', my_number + 1)"> <dtml-else> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('my_number', 1)"> </dtml-if>

<form action="Register" method="POST"> A Field <input name="my_field" value="some value"><br> A Number <input name="my_number" value="<dtml-var my_number>"><br> <input type="submit" value="OK"> </form>

<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

It work for the first load, but when I press the OK button, I get an error message:

Error Type: TypeError Error Value: illegal argument type for built-in operation

The traceback:

<!-- Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 222, in publish_module File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /usr/share/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: Traversable) File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: Register) File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: Register) File /usr/share/zope/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 172, in __call__ (Object: Register) File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 528, in __call__ (Object: Register) File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 342, in eval (Object: REQUEST.set('my_number', my_number + 1)) (Info: REQUEST) File <string>, line 0, in ? TypeError: (see above)

-->

What is wrong? How do I increment the value?

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