Max, Is your index_html object a DTML Method or a DTML Document? If it's a DTML Document then acquisition won't work in the way you expected. Change it into a DTML Method and the structure you describe below will work. You will not need to create an index_html object in every sub-folder (but each subfolder can optionally have its own unique primary_content and secondary_content objects). Regards, Andy Bourne

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:52:03 +0200 From: Max M <maxm@mxm.dk> To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Using a template for all pages, or calling dtml as a function, or perhaps switch to Zpt ??

I have a site where i want to use the same template for all the pages. Lets say that I have the following structure:

index_html: <b> <dtml-var primary_content> </b> <i> <dtml-var secondary_content> </i>

I then want to use this template for all my pages. Most of my products will them implement "primary_content()" and "secondary_content()" methods. If a product hasn't implemented one of the methods, it just finds it from somewhere up the aquisition (aq) path

So far so good.

My problem is that it seems that I have to define "index_html" in every product for this to work.

If I just put an "index_html" in the root of my aq path zope will traverse it's way up to it allright, but naturally won't find the objects "primary_content()" and "secondary_content()" methods. So the view is wrong.

If I create a simple dtml attribute that looks like:

index_html: <dtml-var "aq_parent.index_html(None, _)"> to call the aquired index_html within the current namespace, it doesn't work either.

I want to use this type of layout in a site using a lot of products, so putting all the index_html code inside each product is A Bad Thing for many reasons.

Has anybody got an idea as to how I can approach this? Perhaps by using Zpt ?

Isn't it possible to call the index_html like a function from within the current namespace ?? If so, isn't index_html(None, _) the right way to do it?

regards Max M

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