[Zope] Newbie PARENTS question - <Folder instance at 8577a18>

[Chris Cooke-Johnson]

Thanx Phil,

but that substitution is giving me "<Folder instance at 8577a18>" not
the id of the parent folder...

any ideas?

Phil Harris wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris
> 
> Have you tried
> 
> <dtml-var "PARENTS[1]">
> 
> Might work ;¬)
> 
> Phil
> phil@philh.org
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Cooke-Johnson
> Sent: 29 September 1999 22:27
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Newbie PARENTS question
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to reference the folder above from a DTML method. Basically
> what I'm looking for is an equivalent to the the <!--#var id--> which
> will give the id of the parent folder. In the DTML reference I found an
> explanation of the PARENTS attribute with seems to be what I want but
> I'm getting errors with both:
> 
> <!--#var PARENTS[1]-->
> and
> <!--#expr PARENTS[1]-->
> 
> How do I do this?
> 
> Also, is it possible to nest calls? I.E. How can I make:
> 
> <!--#var <!--#var id--><!--#var_another_method--> --> or similar
> 
> In other words how can I make a compound call based on path (or other)
> variables?
> 
> Thanx in advance.
> 
> Chris
> 
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