[Zope-dev] Newbie Alert: creating Products with DTML

[Ray]

Terribly sorry...  This was posted to the wrong list.

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From: Ray <zopelist@circle17.com>
To: zope-dev <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:48 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] Newbie Alert: creating Products with DTML


> I'm fairly new to Python & Zope and am hoping someone could lend a
hand....
>
>
> How would one go about instantiating a 'Product' via DTML?  Such as, for
> example, a ZCatalog? I'm tried the following (arguments may not be exact
> here):
>
> <dtml-call "manage_addZCatalog('Catalog')">
>
> <dtml-call
"Control_Panel.Products.ZCatalog.manage_addZCatalog('Catalog')">
> (hoping I can call the "static" method in the ZCatalog definition)
>
> <dtml-with "addProduct['ZCatalog']">
>     <dtml-call "manage_addZCatalog('Catalog')">
>                          or (after adding appopriate Properties to
REQUEST)
>     <dtml-call "manage_addZCatalog(_.None, _)">
> </dtml-with>
>
>
> Is it possible to access the manage_addZCatalog method directly (as is the
> case with internal classes, such as Image's manage_addImage)?  How exactly
> is it that the 'internal' classes have their manage_add* methods in the
> Global Namespace?  Or, are they actually part of the Zope tree (off
root?),
> thus available via acquisition?
>
> Thanks.....
>
>
>
>
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