[Zope] Bag 'o newbie questions

[Mike Renfro]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:40:16PM -0700, Michael S. Fischer wrote:

> 2) I wrote a left-side navbar that displays the directory tree of the
> site.  Lucky me!  <dtml-tree> seems to be capable of generating an even
> nicer one.  Our site's directory tree looks like this:

I got tree to work a long time ago, but I actually got tired of the
perpetual clickability of it. I exchanged it for an NFGNav-based
navbar, and then for one written in Python and ZPT. Documented at
http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr

> 3) In directories like /d/dd, where there is no index_html page, I do
> _not_ want to inherit a parent's index_html page; rather, I want to set
> up my own TOC generator for the directory.  What's the best way to do
> this?

Untested code, assuming any designers you have don't mind editing
pages not named index_html:

index_html (acquired from root):

<dtml-if "_.hasattr(this().aq_explicit, 'content_html')">
  <dtml-var content_html>
<dtml-else>
  <dtml-var toc_html>
</dtml-if>

Use content_html like you'd normally use index_html; use the dtml
method toc_html to generate your toc.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu