[Zope] dtml-with help

[Matt Standish]

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 11:35, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Friday 24 May 2002 5:44 pm, Matt Standish wrote:
> >Hello-
> >I have a simple question.
> >I would like to do this:
> ><dtml-with <dtml-var group>>
> >But of course it does not work. <dtml-var group> Is a value in my MySql
> >database.  It also represents a directory name in my Zope tree.  Meaning
> >is the user is in the engineering group they will be forced into the
> >engineering directory.  Did that make any sense?
> 
> So you want to search the dtml namespace for something with the name 'group'. 
> Then, search the dtml namespace for something whose name is the same as the 
> value you found in the first search ?
> 
> That would be:
> 
> <dtml-with "_[group]">
> 
> Searching the whole dtml namespace for that directory may not be the best 
> idea. What happens if something earlier in the search order has the same 
> name? for example, it is unlikely you would find the right directory if 
> 'group' contained the string 'title'.
> 
> I suggest you write a short python script which checks only in the places you 
> expect to find these directories.

Humm...  Here is exactly what I am doing.
I am writing a development Portal (in compliance with SEI level 4
standards) that keeps tracks of problem reports and Task tracking etc.. 
I would like to give each team (QA Engineering Database etc.) there own
squishdot site.  

So what I have is a call to the database when the page loads

  <dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('uid',AUTHENTICATED_USER)">
  <dtml-in viewUser_sql>

The page then displays all there User information.  Halfway through the
screen I do this:

<dtml-with forum>  # a folder containg all the Squishdot sites
<dtml-var ls> # A dtml-method I wrote to list the last message posted  
and options to reply

under forum is
 /database
 /engineer
 /qa etc..

The only problem is that I can't figure out how to use dtml-with to
change to the users groups forum.  The Zope site itself is small, just a
bunch of SQL and Forms. Am I going about this the wrong way?

Any help would be appreciated.