[Zope] Re[2]: [Zope] Splitting ZSQL results across pages
John Morton
jwm@plain.co.nz
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:01:17 +1200 (NZST)
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:50:02 -0400 you wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Dieter Maurer [dieter@handshake.de]
> >
> >John Morton writes:
> > > I'd like to split the output of a ZSQL query across different instances
> of
> > > a page in the same fashion as zope.org does with ZCatalog output, but I
> > > can't for the life of me find any documentation on how it's done. Does
> > > anyone know the magic incarntations or where the documents are?
> >
> > Look at the "in" tag's batching features.
Which was the only place I didn't look. Doh!
> Or for something with a gentler learning curve:
>
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZSQL
>
> Go there and read the section on "Creating Search Interfaces." Zope will
> magically create a search query form and a table-formatted batching output
> method on the back end, based on an SQL Query method of your own design. So
> read that, do that, and then look at the methods it creates. I found it
> very useful in getting up to speed on how to roll my own batching DTML
> methods.
Yep. Worked for me; it all made sense after reading the output of a search
interface. Thanks to all who replied.
John.