If the object inherits from CatalogAware, you get a bonus method called owner(), which you can call like so: <p>The owner of this document is <dtml-var owner>.</p> If not, you can use the get_local_roles() method. You need to iterate it -- best with an External Method. Like so: def GetOwner(self): for Role in self.get_local_roles(): if 'Owner' in Role[1]: return Role[0] return 'Zope' Add this External Method at top-level. Then, thanks to Acquisiton, you can access the value in any document thus: <p>The owner of this document is <dtml-var GetOwner>.</p> Hope this helps. -- Alexander Staubo http://alex.mop.no/ The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Andrich [mailto:oli@rz-online.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:42 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] How do I get the owner of a document?

Hi,

may be I am just to dumb or something like that, but Zope has to now who is the owner of a certain document. This is for sure, but how can I get the owner of a document from DTML or an external method? I read through the sources and maybe I am just to dumb or so to find it, but I can't find any manage_* call, that tells me how to do this?

I have to write a small DTML method, that finds all documents, that are located in a givben hierachie which are owned by a certain user.

Bye and many thanks,

OLiver

P.S.: Don't frustrated that I ask these things again and again, but now I have to deal with things in Zope, that I haven't dealt with before. ;-))))

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