[Zope] 2 Questions about links and files

[Garry Steedman]

Gordon,

1. my preferred way of doing this is creating a folder called 
"downloads" into which you drop the docs as file objects when you 
make updates. you can then replace a static link with something like 
this:

<dtml-in
  "downloads.objectValues('File')"                   
sort=bobobase_modification_time
   reverse size=1 orphan=0>
<a href="<dtml-var absolute_url>">newsletter</a>
</dtml-in>

though i prefer to create a dtml method something like this:

<dtml-with downloads>
<form method=post action= name=>
<select size=1 name=newsletters 
onChange="top.location.href=newsletters.options[this.selectedIndex].va
lue">
<option selected>Choose a newsletter
<option>-------------------
<dtml-in "objectValues('File')">
<option value=&dtml-absolute_url;><dtml-var title>
</dtml-in>
</select>
</form>
</dtml-with>

if you call the method e.g. getNewsletters, you just use
<dtml-var getNewsletters> wherever you want a drop down to appear.

2. if you're on a *nix, you could probably hack up a script to pass 
the word docs to a translator, but you should probably check out:

http://www.zope.org/Members/eric/MSWordDocument/

HTH,

garry


On 5 Dec 2001, at 23:22, Gordon Holtslander wrote:

From:           	Gordon Holtslander <gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca>
To:             	"Zope List (E-mail)" <zope@zope.org>
Send reply to:  	gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca
Subject:        	[Zope] 2 Questions about links and files
Date sent:      	Wed, 05 Dec 2001 23:22:28 -0600

> 1. I have a local file system directory that has Word doc sermon
> outlines in it. I'd like to have a link to the most recent of those
> files, but I don't want to change it manually. Is there some way to
> have the link point to the most recent file?
> 
> 2. Obviously, not everyone has Word on their system. Is there some way
> to dynamically take a word doc from the directory and turn it into a
> "browser doc" so everyone can see it. I don't want to change the Word
> docs permanently because people still need and use them as Word docs.
> I don't want to have to manually transform all of them into html,
> although if that was the least painful method of dealing with this I
> could. There are about 85 docs now, but there are at least 2 and as
> many as 9 added each week.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Gord
> 
> Gordon W. Holtslander
> Director of Development &
> Information Technology
> The Lung Association - Saskatchewan
> gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca <mailto:gordon.holtslander@sk.lung.ca>
> 
> 
> 
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