At 08:39 PM 12/10/98 +0000, Joachim Schmitz wrote:

I´m trying to learn how to work with Zope, by cloning the Zope-homepage, so far I got many hints by viewing the dtml-source. Unfortunately one (at least I) cannot reveal all details. For example, when I didn´t find the source of "sidebar_contents".

sidebar_contents is a property of type "lines" that looks something like this: Overview|/Download/ Contributed Software|/Download/Contrib Binary Porting Kit|/Download/ZKit/zkit-1.9.0k2.tgz Basically it is a list of link titles and links. Different directories can provide their own sidebar_contents properties, or acquire them as they choose. I didn't create this scheme, but I belive the reason a property was chosen, rather than just iterating over the Documents and Folders in the current directory, is to allow you to have control over exactly what links appear. BTW, I consider the sidebar_contents arrangement pretty advanced DTML, (it would have taken me a long to time figure it out.) So don't worry if it seems complex, it think it is. -Amos P.S. When we have Document Objects as opposed to Document Methods, you could set a property on documents to mark them for inclusion or exclusion from things like the sidebar links.