[Zope] problem with lines properties

[Casey Duncan]

Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Jim Washington wrote:
> 
> > Are you putting the data into the "lines" properties programmatically?
> > What does that code look like?
> 
> No, I'm just entering them from the normal ZClass add form. Nothing
> fancy. The product I'm working on will keep track of our school's lunch
> menus. So I have a property lunch_menu that might contain:
> 
> veal shank
> potato salad
> baked beans
> celery sticks
> 
> (Not necessarily those items :-)
> 
> The menu is rendered like this:
> 
> <h2>Lunch</h2>
> <ul>
>  <dtml-in lunch_menu>
>   <dtml-let item=sequence-item>
>    <li><dtml-var item></li>
>   </dtml-let>
>  </dtml-in>
> </ul>
> 
> As I said, this doesn't work until I edit the instance and simply click on
> the "save changes" option. Weird.
> 
> -Tim

Setting a property type as lines does not guarantee that the value there
is a list. Are you marshalling the form field to lines on you ZClass
form?

ala: <textarea name="lunch_menu:lines"...

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