[Zope] Parameter passing

[Dag Nygren]

>  > I got the impression that SUBMIT:ing a form will
>  > automatically pass on the variables used in the
>  > original form to the target item.
> Your impression is correct.
>  > However my experiments doesn't seem to do that.
> What happens? What are your experiments.
> 
> The parameter passing is an essential task of ZPubllisher,
> more precisely its "mapply" function. It works very reliable.
> 
> Probably, your experiments are slightly wrong.
> 
>  > Is there another way of doing this than the  URL?para=something ?
> Submitting a form with method="GET" (the default) is equivalent
> to a "URL?c1=v1&c2=v2&...".
> 
> You may want to look either at "REQUEST" (display it in the target
> (action) page) or in "var/Z2.log" (the ZServer Log file).
> Experiment with "method=GET" (until everything works as expected)
> because,then, you see the parameters in the ZServer log file.

Yes, showing REQUEST in the target did indeed solve the problem:

It was Formulator not using the  name of the field only as
a variable name, but a name of field_<name>.

Now this finally seems to work as I intended.
Thanks to you all for your hints, it helped a lot to know
where to look.

Dag