[Zope] Help with Edit This Page code?

[David Robson]

Thanks, Amos, just what I asked for. 

But not (drats!) what I was really looking for. 

My users, who can edit pages in a specific folder
only, will typically approach ‘their’ pages as
Anonymous users. Seem to me a passive test for
AUTHENTICATED_USER will fail. Should there be a
separate Log-in page before they approach their
folder? Or perhaps a link visible to everyone that
says something like…

Page owner click <a href="force_login">here</a> to
edit. 

…and then run your code??

(Does force_login exist?)

Dave


--- Amos Latteier <amos@aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 04:46 PM 10/10/99 -0700, David Robson wrote:
> >
> >Can someone please point me to code that will 
> >
> ><> display an ‘Edit this page’ link on pages for
> which
> >the viewer has edit permission
> ><> redirect user to an ‘edit & save’ window
> ><> hide the link from other users
> >
> >(I think there was a similar Q on the list some
> weeks
> >ago but I can’t locate it now.) 
> 
> Here's one way to accomplish this:
> 
> <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_permissions('Change
> DTML Documents',
> this())">
> <a href="manage_main">Edit this page</a>
> </dtml-if>
> 
> This DTML fragment looks to see if the current user
> has the 'Change DTML
> Documents' permission on the current object (this())
> and if so, it displays
> a link to the manage_main method.
> 
> Note, you could define another permission if you
> wish, though if you wish
> to use standard Zope management screens you will
> need to give your users
> adequate permissions to use them.
> 
> In general you can send a user to a Zope management
> screen and only those
> options for which they have permissions, will appear
> in the management
> interface. This is in general what you want.
> 
> If you don't want to use the Zope management
> interface you can write your
> own methods for editing Zope objects, but you still
> need to make sure that
> the users have adequate permissions, or that you set
> proxy roles on the
> editing forms.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -Amos
> 
> P.S. A good way (in absence of exhaustive
> documentation of the internal
> workings of Zope) to figure stuff like this out, is
> to go to the management
> screens and see which URLS do what you want.
> 


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David Robson            robson555@yahoo.com
Computer Support        Towson High School, MD, USA

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