You might want to consider trying to seperate the content and logic as much as possible, so that you avoid having to code anything to create a new presentation and/or slide. You could likely create a product using 2 ZClasses that represent a slide and presentation, without much more effort than what you are doing now. I think ou could even subclass file in a ZClass to create a custom SVG file object type that stored metadata about the slide, like its number and the presentation it belongs to in Property sheets. There is likely enough example information in the Zope Book and ZClass howtos on Zope.org to get you started. Also, if it helps, get the REQUEST object directly from your Python script with context.REQUEST['someformvalue']... Sean -----Original Message----- From: tximi txanga [mailto:tximitxanga@yahoo.es] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 8:27 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] New member: learning Zope First I want to thank all the hard workers that have put all this planet-Zope together. I'm developing a simple template procedure for website presentations (with SVG and the internet I think we can forget powerpointlike presentantions for a while) using zope as THE server. Since my presentation is next friday, I'm creating something that works, but I'm not happy with it. The problem is: I have a couple of methods(DTML and Python)per presentation. The DTML receive as parameter the slide number and calls the python script that returns the name of the slide. Therefore, right now everytime that I want to setup a presentation I have to build two documents. I would like to build only one document per presentation: the python script. A general DTML method should receive two parameters (pResnetation and sLide) and create the page calling the appropiate python script. BUT, I cannot call the python script using the parameter pResentation like <dtml-var foo=expr"pResentation(sLide)">. So the topic question might be how can I receive a parameter using GET that represents a python scritp and call this script from the DTML method without using external scripts? Thanks in advance! PS wouldn't it be nice if some guru can develop a class for presentations that would allow us to assemble a bunch of slides in less than a minute minute using zope? _______________________________________________________________ El Nokia 5510, un aspecto extraño, un sonido genial. Visite http://es.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ descubra el Nokia 5510 y ¡lléveselo! El concurso acaba el 16 de diciembre de 2001. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )