[Zope] Re: Zope External Editor for other folderish containers

[Jim Washington]

Casey Duncan wrote:

>On Friday 24 May 2002 11:58 am, Jim Washington wrote:
>[snip old stuff]
>  
>
>>Hi, Casey
>>
>>This is a Truly Masterful Product! Thanks!
>>
>>I've done some work to make it work (for me) in other places, and it 
>>appears that the link code:
>>
>>  <dtml-let explicit="_.getitem('sequence-item').aq_explicit">
>>    <dtml-if expr="_.hasattr(explicit, 'manage_FTPget')
>>                   or _.hasattr(explicit, 'read')
>>                   or _.hasattr(explicit, 'document_src')">
>>      <a href="&dtml-URL1;/externalEdit_/&dtml.url_quote-sequence-key;"
>>         title="Edit using external editor"
>>      ><img src="&dtml-BASEPATH1;/misc_/ExternalEditor/edit_icon"
>>            align="middle" hspace="2" border="0" alt="External Editor" 
>>/></a>
>>    </dtml-if>
>>  </dtml-let>
>>
>>will be reused over and over.
>>
>>I was wondering whether you might consider in the future factoring the 
>>link code into a separate DTML method so that it can be obtained by 
>>acquisition.  That way, the code would reside once in e.g., 
>>ObjectManager; and then OrderedFolder, FindSupport, etc. could acquire 
>>it by using e.g., <dtml-var external_editor_link> instead of a full copy 
>>of the link code.  
>>    
>>
>
>This sounds like a pretty good idea. I'll do this in the next release.
>
>Thanks for the suggestions!
>
>-Casey
>  
>
And one always finds a problem right after publishing, right?

The link calculation needs to be something like

<a href= "<dtml-var 
expr="explicit.absolute_url()[:explicit.absolute_url().rfind('/')]">/externalEdit_/<dtml-var 
expr="explicit.getId()">"

if you want it to work everywhere in FindSupport.  URL1 is relative to 
the folder you are finding from, and the link needs to be where the 
object is.

-- Jim Washington