[Zope] Re: metal: how to get a portlet to render in a plone page template

[Tonico Strasser]

hpinson at indepthl.com wrote:

> Hi.  This is a plone question, but i've not been able to find an 
> answer on the Plone list so far:

Have you tried the plone-design list?

> I am trying to embed the  portlet news macro on Plones index_html top 
> level page template.  This should render the news within the 
> template, but does not:     
> 
> <h2>News Summary</h2>
> <div metal:block metal:use-
> macro="python:path('here/portlet_news/macros/portlet')" />
> Summary of news items goes here.
> </div>
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to get this portlet to render 
> in the page template?

Do you get any errors? What's the name of the parent macro and which 
slot are you trying to fill?

Tonico