[Zope] Another Annoying question...Name Space related I think...

[David Kankiewicz]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Muller <emuller@PaineWebber.com>
> To: 'zope@zope.org' <zope@zope.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:03 PM
> Subject: [Zope] Another Annoying question...Name Space related I think...
> 
> ><dtml-with "FWAEvent.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'],REQUEST)">
> >       <!--#call "propertysheets.Basic.manage_editProperties(REQUEST)"-->
> ></dtml-with>
> >(Although I'm still not really sure what the above is supposed to do)
> 
> This is the one you should generally use. To change the properties on a
> ZClass instance, you need to call manage_editProperties or
> manage_changeProperties *on the specific propertysheet* that you are looking
> to change. The difference between manage_editProperties and
> manage_changeProperties is that manage_editProperties will change any
> property that it can find a value for in REQUEST. manage_changeProperties
> can work like this, too. Or you can specify specific properties to change
> <dtml-call "propertysheets.MyPropSheet.manage_changeProperties({'title' :
> 'foo'})">
> 
> (sets the "title" property on MyPropSheet of this ZClass instance to "foo".)

It seems that manage_editProperties(REQUEST.form) handles 'boolean'
types from a REQUEST while manage_changeProperties(REQUEST.form) does
not.

Just something I ran into working with them,
David
                

> HTH,
> 
> Kevin
>