[Zope] Two more questions

[Goldthwaite, Joe]

Thanks Tim,

It didn't work.  I get a SyntaxError on the question mark. Specifically;

Compilation failed
TAL.TALDefs.TALError: Python expression error:
    GetISLines?FY=request
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax in expression 'python:GetISLines?FY=request', at
line 10, column 5

This brings up more questions.  I assume that GetISLines is looked up
through acquisition.  FY is the name of one of my parameters.  How does it
know that I want the FY attribute of the request object?  Also, how would I
pass two parameters?  "GetISLines?FY=request;Per=request"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Zegir [mailto:trzegir at ncable.net.au]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:46 PM
To: joe at goldthwaites.com
Subject: RE: [Zope] Two more questions


Sorry about the last email :)
In answer to the second question
Try something like this:
<tr tal:repeat="item python:GetISLines?FY=request">

>From Tim Zegir

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-bounces+trzegir=ncable.net.au at zope.org
[mailto:zope-bounces+trzegir=ncable.net.au at zope.org] On Behalf Of
Goldthwaite, Joe
Sent: Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:36 AM
To: zope at zope.org
Subject: [Zope] Two more questions

I really hate to keep bothering everyone but I'm still running into
things I
don't understand.

In order to keep my table headers consistent across reports, I have them
stored as a separate DTML method called IS_Ptd_Header.  In my main
Income
Statement, I have this where I want the table header to show up;

<span tal:replace="structure here/IS_Ptd_Header"></span>

This works fine.  The problem I've run into is when I want to use tal
tags
in the header like this;

Income Statement for period <span
tal:replace="request/Per">Period</span>

If I have this line in the Income Statement, I get the Per parameter
from
the URL. The same line in IS_Ptd_Header gets ignored so the resulting
page
shows "Income Statement for period period".  I thought that maybe the
tal
tags were being ignored because IS_Ptd_Header is a DTML method so I
created
a ZPT with the name IS_YTD_Header and used that in the tal replace
command
but the result came back as HTML quoted text instead of the actual HTML.
Anyone know what I'm missing?


Second problem.  I have an external method called GetISLines.  The
actual
function being called looks like this;

def GetISLines(FY = 2, Per = 12, CatType = "Grp", Categories = ""):
   c = ISLines(FY, Per, CatType, Categories)
   return c.DefLines

I've been doing all my testing using the default arguments with this tal
tag;

<tr tal:repeat="item here/GetISLines">

I need to pass in the URL parameters but I can't figure out how to do
it.

<tr tal:repeat="item here/GetISLines(request.FY)"> doesn't work.
Nothing
else I've tried works either.  How do you pass parameters to an external
function?


Thanks.

Joe Goldthwaite


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