[Zope] Namespace question

[Dieter Maurer]

complaw@hal-pc.org writes:
 > I have an object with a built-in method (called "check_id") for determining
 > whether the value from a retrieved object has the same id as one of the elements
 > in the current object's lines property.
 > 
 > What I want to do is make an edit form that has a <SELECT> element with a
 > complete list of object id's of a given type (meta_type = 'Doctrine') and
 > compare each of those id's to the id's stored in the current object's lines
 > property.  If there is a match, I want the <OPTION SELECTED> statement written. 
 > Otherwise, it would be simply <OBJECT>.  
 > 
 > Note, the Doctrine object has (of course) an id.  The lines property has a list
 > of id's that are subsets of the total number of Doctrine objects.
 > 
 > Here is the code...
 > 
 > 
 > <SELECT NAME="doctrines:list" SIZE="5" MULTIPLE>
 >   <dtml-in "objectValues('Doctrine')">
 >     <dtml-if "check_id(sequence-item.id)">
 >       <OPTION VALUE="<dtml-var id>" SELECTED><dtml-var title></OPTION>
 >     <dtml-else>
 >       <OPTION VALUE="<dtml-var id>"><dtml-var title></OPTION>
 >     </dtml-if>
 >   </dtml-in>
 > </SELECT>
 > 
 > 
 > The question that I have is that <dtml-if "check_id(sequence-item.id)"> doesn't
 > work.  Any hints as to what the problem might be?
You probably have 2 problems:

  1. "sequence-idem": you already got an answer...

  2. "check_id" will probably look at the wrong object.
     make the object explicite...
     

Dieter