[Zope] setting properties - some basic questions

[Andrew Williams]

Jason:

I would suggest taking a look at the following:

The Zope Book:
http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB

Dieter's excellent Zope Book (Chapter 3):
http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html

HowTo:  Advanced DTML Techniques:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/AdvancedDTML

and finally...

HowTo:  The DTML NameSpace HowTo:
http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/NameSpaceHow-To


Those are all good questions; however I think you will be able to find all 
of the answers you need at the above links.

I also think you will get a better fundamental understanding of how Zope 
works and the various mechanisms/ways to go about programming in Zope after 
reading the above material.

I'm certainly not trying to steer you away from asking questions to the 
mailing list; sometimes it is easier and quicker to point to documentation 
rather than give a cursory answer.

Hope this helps,

Andrew Williams

>From: "Jason Cunliffe" <jasonic@nomadicsltd.com>
>To: <zope@zope.org>
>Subject: [Zope] setting properties - some basic questions
>Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 07:43:23 -0500
>
>Hello
>
>I have been studying Caseman's excellent How-To ideas for clean handling of
>Javascripts in Zope:
>http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/client_script_howto
>[Thank You!]
>
>So now I have a boolean property 'admin' for my site folders and
>DTMLDocuments.
>When admin is 'ON' various Methods are rendered on the pages some simple
><dtml-if> statements such as:
>
><dtml-if admin>
>   admin = <dtml-var admin><br>
>   <dtml-var showjavascripts>
><dtml-else>
>   admin is OFF
></dtml-if>
>
>Please, can anyone teach me how to:
>
>Q1.  set 'admin' on or off by a button on the same page?
>
>Q2.  set 'admin' on or off by a button on another page?
>
>Q3.  toggle 'admin' to its oppposite state via a button?
>
>Q4.  perform 1, 2, 3 above via a DTML/Python method I can call from
>anywhere?
>
>..my documents also have a 'scripts' property [type = 'Lines'].
>'scripts' lists the names of various javascript functions wrapped as
>DTMLmethods.
>
>Q5. How can I edit the text in different lines of such a a property?
>
>This is my 'showjavascripts' DTMLmethod:
>
>The script properties of this DTMLdocument are:<br><br>
><dtml-in scripts>
>   <dtml-var sequence-item><br>
></dtml-in>
>
>#note: scripts is a type='lines' property as above
>
>
>Q6. How do to create and set a property for whole lot of documents using
>DTML and/or Python?
>
>For example, I have a folder 'NEWARTISTS' and I want to add 'admin' and
>'scripts' properties for all documents and folders within those...
>
>
>Q7. How to make this all work so that qualified users can login into 
>'admin'
>pages inside certain folders which will then turn 'on' the admin property
>flag automatically for everythign below that?
>
>Presumably 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 will all use 4...
>
>I imagine this is all incredibly simple, but I need a little help to reach
>the aaha!! moment :-)
>
>
>+FINALLY, I have want to apply the same approach setting 'scripts' and
>'admin' for index_html, but since it is a method it has no properties. If I
>apply 'scripts' and folder properties it to its parent folder it will then
>apply to everyhting below there by acquisition. This is handy but often I
>need finer grained control than that.
>Changing index_html to be a DTMLdocument does not work.
>
>Any suggestions for Thinking Zope here?
>
>Thanks
>
>- Jason
>___________________________________________________________
>Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS['Interactive Art and Technology']
>
>
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