[Zope] Zope Gurus: this is a tricky one, _please_ help

[Kevin Dangoor]

-----Original Message-----
From: Heiko Stoermer <heiko@mig.net>
To: Zope Mailing List <zope@zope.org>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope Gurus: this is a tricky one, _please_ help


>Pavlos Christoforou wrote:
>
>> Zopistas
>>
>> I have not followed the Zope world for a while and ... ZClasses, ZCatalog
>> XMLDocument ... DC slow down so we can keep up!
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Heiko Stoermer wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > It would be ease to simply call
>> > "manage_clone(folder.object1,'newname',REQUEST)" of course, but the
>> > selected object comes from a list in a DTML form and thus the ID cannot
>> > be hardcoded. The user selects an ID from the list, hits a button and
>> > the next DTML Document is supposed to clone the selected object into
the
>> > current directory.
>> >
>> > If I put something like
>> > "manage_clone(REQUEST['input'],'newname',REQUEST)" I get an error:
>> > -> Error Type: AttributeError
>> > -> Error Value: 'string' object has no attribute 'cb_isCopyable'
>>
>> I would think that something like:
>>
>> <!--# manage_clone(_.getitem(input,0),'newname',REQUEST)-->
>> or maybe
>> <!--# manage_clone(_.getitem(_['input'],0),'newname',REQUEST)-->
>>
>
>unfortunately, neither of these work... they produce key errors.
>But thanks anyway!

How about:
<!--#call manage_clone(_.getattr(folder, input),'newname',REQUEST)-->

Kevin