[Zope] DTML syntax

[Tim Wilson]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

> If it works better for you, you can store the PDFs in the same area as other
> related content. If you want to make a central PDF download page, you could
> then set up ZCatalog to index the property "content_type", and do a Find to
> catalog the objects. Then, your download page just needs to search the
> catalog for content_type: application/pdf (or whatever the type is).
> 
> It could be as simple as:
> 
> <dtml-in "Catalog({'metatype': 'File', 'content_type': 'application/pdf'})">
> <a href="/<dtml-var "getpath(data_record_id_)">/index.html"><dtml-var
> title></a>
> </dtml-in>

OK, this is cool. I just read the ZCatalog tutorial. Are you suggesting a
simple search interface at the central download page or simply using
ZCatalog to find the relevant, but scattered, PDF files and then create
some sort of list of them that a user can click on?

-Tim

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