At 08:09 14.11.2000 +1100, you wrote:

Have you had a look at what the filter method returns when you press use "Test" tab?

The test (uid=*) shows me all the data from the LDAP server. If in the dtml-method, I insert <dtml-var searchPerson> (where searchPerson is my LDAP filter), following data is shown: [<Entry instance at 34436080; uid=LLAMPACH,ou=people,o=isp.lu>, <Entry instance at 34436016; uid=JTHEIS,ou=people,o=isp.lu>, <Entry instance at 34437904; uid=mludwig,ou=people,o=isp.lu>, ...... So, the connection to the LDAP server is ok, and the LDAP-filter finds some data.

You may find some clues there in the data that it returns (if you have got your LDAP search filter typed in correctly...)

hmmm? Marc Ludwig Luxembourg

- Michael Melbourne, Australia

At 09:32 AM 13/11/2000 +0100, you wrote:

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Hi.

I was inserting the "missing= " statement into the <dtml-var sn> key. In fact, I don't get the key error anymore. But unfortunately, I don't get the values of the sn attribute either. The method just returns me an empty line for every LDAP entry. How can I access the LDAP attributes?

any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

Marc Ludwig Luxembourg

At 14:29 12.11.2000 +1100, you wrote:

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Hi Zopistas,

Firstly, a big thank you to all thos epeople who helped me with KeyError problem when accessing LDAP entries. Just so the solution makes it onto the mailing list archive (for the next bunny who has the same problem) the solution was to add the following to each of your variables

missing= 

...so that when Zope came across entries without that attribute it didn't barf.

I now have one last problem. I can now access all entries from the LDAP directory using the notation <dtml-var sn missing =  >- all except one - the "title" attibute .

I am guessing that it is because Zope uses "title" to reference the title of the object in the zope database, and therefore won't let you get at the ldap variable using the normal: <dtml-var title> notation.

Is there any way I can pinpoint the LDAP variable instead of the object title in zope? I have no control over the ldap server and attributes name, so I can't change it at that end.

When I test the LDAP filter method I can see the variable (it lists all of the attributes of the LDAP record), but I can't reference it in DTML. My filter method is called 'Academics' and just extracts a list of academics in the biology department here at Monash University. I'm sure there must be a way using python notation, but not being a python expert (yet!), I could do with a few clues...

Any ideas?

Thanks again...

- Michael