[Zope] [Q] About sessions and Zope

[Shaw, Howard]

Everitt's suggestion is good, but I suspect that you will probably have
to write an External Method to automatically create and enter the
session...

Go to lib/python/Products/OFSP/Session.py and browse the source for the
functions and their parameters. In particular, on the Folder object you
have created you need to execute .manage_addSession, then 

For example, if I was in the parent folder which will contain your newly
created Folder, my DTML might call:
	<!--#var newSession(PARENTS[0],folder)-->
where 'folder' is obtained from a form, and PARENTS[0] is the
form-response's immediate parent (i.e. the containing folder), and
newSession is an External Method something like this:

def newSession(parent,foldername):
	parent.manage_addFolder(foldername)
	current=getattr(parent,foldername) #now current is 'inside' the
new folder
	current.manage_addSession('session_id','ActiveSession') 
	current=getattr(current,'session_id')
	current.enter()
	return 'some DTML snippet'

Note: This is untested code!

> ----------
> From: 	Max Murdock[SMTP:ffelici@gol.grosseto.it]
> Sent: 	Thursday, February 25, 1999 4:32 AM
> To: 	zope@zope.org
> Subject: 	[Zope] [Q] About sessions and Zope
> 
> Zope is surely a great system to develop dynamic html sites, and even
> a
> novice like me can learn how to use it.
> 
> My problem is that I've got to be able to make users able to manage
> sessions in a transparent way: people who get in the site should open
> a
> session, create a folder, put there their material and leave to tehe
> site
> manager the task to verify what they sent and close the session.
> And all this should be done seamlessly by the user, possibly with a
> single
> form, without having the task to "click to add session", the enter the
> name, then go to the session and make ti active, create the folder and
> upload there the files...
> The main.dtml suggests me to present the user a form with the
> "manage_addSessionForm" button to press... then he can put the session
> name
> and click "add". So he automatically returns to the folder view, and
> that's
> not exacltly what "transparent to the user" means, understand me...
> So I guess I have to reprogram the routine that makes the form:
> instead of
> showing the folder it should automatically start the session and ask
> for a
> new folder to be created.
> The PROBLEM: where's that routine? Where's the script that makes the
> form?
> Where is it going when I select the  "manage_addSessionForm" action? I
> ain't been able to find it, even with the "find" command, ain't got
> other
> ideas...
> 
> I understand maybe this Q requires a bit of answer... if anyone wont'
> take
> this labour I can perfectly understand; otherwise: can someone point
> me a
> doc explaining all this? I've downloaded most of the docs in the Zope
> site,
> and I can dnload more...
> 
> TIA!
> Max Murdock
> 
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