[Zope-CMF] Pulldown list of members

[Kelley, Sean]

Hi,
Thanks for this- it is not quite what I was looking for.  I want to get a
pulldown list of the actual names of the creators rather than the option to
choose between creator and any.
Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tres Seaver [mailto:tseaver@zope.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:36 PM
> To: Kelley, Sean
> Cc: 'zope-cmf@zope.org'
> Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Pulldown list of members
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 19:48, Kelley, Sean wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to create a pulldown list of members or creators on 
> the CMF advanced
> > search page so that instead of having to type the user name 
> fully and
> > correctly when searching by creator, there would be a handy 
> list to select
> > from.  Does anyone have any idea how to do this or has 
> someone done it?
> > Seems like it would be a good standard component of CMF 
> skins and should
> > only list creators as opposed to all members.  I am new to 
> zope and CMF so I
> > am nearly useless at this type of thing.
> 
> ZCatalogs have a method, 'uniqueValuesFor', which returns the set of
> possible values in an index.  You might use it so (untested)::
> 
>   <select name="creator">
>    <option value="" selected>Any</option>
>    <option tal:repeat="uc
> python:here.portal_catalog.uniqueValuesFor('Creator' )"
>            tal:attributes="value uc"
>            tal:content="uc">CREATOR</option>
>   </select>
> 
> Tres.
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