[Zope] anybody written a "tab folder"/<dtml-tab> feature?
Albert Ting
alt@bolt.sonic.net
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:35:52 -0700
Yes, that's what I'm looking for. Will take a look at manage_options
features, guess I can create a simple python method.
Thanks!
Albert
Mark James Adams writes:
> From: Mark James Adams <mark@raysend.com>
> To: zope@zope.org
> Cc: mail@peterbe.com, alt@sonic.net
> Subject: Re: [Zope] anybody written a "tab folder"/<dtml-tab> feature?
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:59:30 -0400
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 05:30 AM, "Peter Bengtsson"
> <mail@peterbe.com> wrote:
>
> > the ZMI doesn't have a tab called "widget". Not in any of the 2.2.x or
> > 2.3.x
> > or 2.4.x
> > Or in other words, I've never seen one.
> >
> >> The zope management interface has a nice tab folder "widget". Sure
> >> would
> >> be nice if there was a <dtml-tab>
> >
> > What would a <dtml-tab> do?
> > Writing DTML tags is easy if you search for the How-Tos on it and
> > there's
> > plenty of examples to download and follow.
> >
>
> I believe Albert is thinking of the management tabs in general. By
> widget he means a general method of making such an interface feature.
>
> The management tabs are generated from the manage_options tuple that is
> defined in Python ZClasses (they are done automatically in ZClasses made
> in the ZMI though the View tab).
>
> For example, in one of my Python classes:
>
> manage_options = (
> {'label': 'Meta', 'action': 'manage_metaInfoEditForm'},
> {'label': 'View', 'action': 'index_html'},
> )
>
> If I call <dtml-var manage_tabs> in one of my management screen, then
> the contents of mange_options will be rendered as tabs. I don't know if
> there is any way to use <dtml-var manage_tabs> outside of the management
> screens. Obviously manage_tabs only needs a tuple of dictionaries to
> render the tabs, so there may be a way to make it render an arbitrary
> tuple, not just manage_options.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>