[Zope] How to distinguish between objects with and without access restrictions

[Bruce Elrick]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > Hello again,
> >
> > after a week or so without any zoping (bad days indeed ;-) I have
> > another problem with an automatic folder list: I combine some sites in
> > one Zope site and have on the top page a list of the available sites.
> > It's just something like
> >
> > <UL>
> > <dtml-in "objectValues(['Folder'])">
> >     <LI><A HREF="<dtml-var id>"><dtml-var title></A>
> > </dtml-in>
> > </UL>
> >
> > Well, no problem ... except when there are (and there is) folders,
> > that are not accessible to the public. Then you can only view the hole
> > page with a password. One solution is to make this page a proxy for
> > "manager" (and as far as I see is there no way to do it otherwise,
> > right?).
> 
> Try this and let me know how it works:
> 
>  <dtml-in "objectValues(['Folder'])" skip_unauthorized>
>      <LI><A HREF="<dtml-var id>"><dtml-var title></A>
>  </dtml-in>
> 


I think you misunderstand his question...he wants anonymous users in the top
level folder to be able to run this code in viewing the top level folder so
that they see both public and private sub-folders, because those anonymous
users may also be users who have ids/passwords, but they may also be the
non-users.  When they access a private sub-folder only then should they be
prompted for a password.

I ran into this but never persued it.  I think he needs to use proxy roles,
but I never brushed up on that in the manual.  It would also be useful, I
think, if he could have some code to mark which folders require a password.

Cheers...
Bruce
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