[Zope] Creating a "list of strings" from DTML-Method?

[Jim Washington]

Hi, Soren

You might want put the following in a new dtml method and see if it does
what you need:

<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('folderlist', objectIds('Folder'))">
<dtml-return folderlist>

Or you might make the list like so:

<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('folderlist', ['folder1', 'folder2',
'folder3'])">
<dtml-return folderlist>

IIRC, dtml-return is relatively new to zope, so if it does not work, you
may need to upgrade.

Regards,

-- Jim Washington


Soren Roug wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a product where I want to create a property that is a
> selection and allows you to select between a list of folders created in
> the parent folder.
> 
> When you add a property in the property sheet the text directly
> above says:
> |
> |For "selection" and "multiple selection" properties enter the name of
> |a selection variable |in the "Value" field. The selection variable is
> |a property or method that returns a list of strings from which the
> |selection(s) can be chosen.
> |
> After fiddling around a bit I realized that the only methods that
> qualify are Z SQL methods. That's not what I'm looking for. Does
> anybody know how to do this with a DTML method or has anyone
> subclassed the DTML method to a class that returns a list of strings
> instead of rendering the text?
> 
> Soren Roug
> European Environment Agency