[Zope] Why can't this be done???

[Stephen Pitts]

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please forgive my probabyl stupid questions... but I am doing my 
> first steps in Zope and unfortunately, I do not
> have an python background.
> 
> I am working on a Newssystem. Editors are going to publish articels, 
> related materials and pictures and are
> given the choice to add a poll and/or a discussion to their articel.
> 
> I wanted to include the main discussion page of ZDiscussion or the 
> included ZDConfera on the page of the articel itself,
> not just link to it. Therefore I created a folder for my articel, and 
> put a ZDiscussion topic, named disc, inside.
> In my article page, I tried
> 
> <dtml-with disc>
>   <dtml-var index_html>
> </dtml-with>
> 
> This gives a key error
Try 
<dtml-with "PARENTS[0].disc">
<dtml-var index_html>
</dtml-with>

> 
> even the most simplest form (although I doubt this should work correctly)
> 
> <dtml-var disc.index_html>
<dtml-var> that way looks the variable name LITERALLY. Instead, you want
to do something like this:
<dtml-var "PARENTS[0].disc.index_html">

Also, are you sure that the index_html exists?

> 
> does return an error. Why is the ZDiscussion folder something 
> special??? What's wron about my tries?
> Is there a way to do what I want?
> 
> Jochen
> 
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