Thanks for the directions, knowing where and what to look for is really half the battle. I did do a search, but I only came up with this thread (http://classic.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-June/026840.html) which wasn't so good for me. Now that I know what to look for and where to look, I'm very happy! :-) Don -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:08 PM To: donald.braman@yale.edu Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Z SQL Method multiple column update Donald Braman writes:

I'm setting up a data entry/data update form for legal cases. Each case has a few documents associated with it. The person entering data enters the number of documents, a script creates necessary records, then presents them with a screen that should look a bit like this, with every datum being updateable:

doc |title |source | pages | ... +----+----------------+------------+---------+ | 01 |title of doc 1 |doc1 source | # of pgs| ... +----+----------------+------------+---------+ | 02 |title of doc 2 |doc2 source | # of pgs| ... +----+----------------+------------+---------+ | 03 |title of doc 3 |doc3 source | # of pgs| ... +----+----------------+------------+---------+ ....etc.

This is so they can enter data about many documents on a single screen. I'm not sure how to bind multiple rows/records to a single Z SQL Method. Any suggestions? The magic lies in the ":records" form variable suffix.

You can look at the ZPublisher section in URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html to find out more. Alternatively, there is a HowTo on FormVariable suffixes on Zope.org. Finally, a search in the (searchable) list archive will show you various posts about this question (very recently). Dieter