[Zope] Getting title attribute given objectid

[J. Cameron Cooper]

Cliff Fogle wrote:
> First off...I just started playing with Zope today...
>  
> This seems like it should be easy, but I've been searching google and 
> the archives all day to no avail.  I have an object ID and would like to 
> display the object title as the content of a drop down menu.  As it is 
> now I can only display the ID:
>  
> </select>
> <select name="querytype">
> <span tal:define="ids root/Database/querytype/objectIds" tal:repeat="id 
> ids" tal:omit-tag="">
> <option tal:attributes="value id" *tal:content="id">*Item from sql 
> method</option>
> </span>
> </select>
>  
> What I want though is for the only the value to be the ID and the 
> content to be the title.  So something like this (which does not work):
>  
> </select>
> <select name="querytype">
> <span tal:define="ids root/Database/querytype/objectIds" tal:repeat="id 
> ids" tal:omit-tag="">
> <option tal:attributes="value id" *tal:content="id/title">*Item from sql 
> method</option>
> </span>
> </select>
>  
> I'm going to go get a good book on Zope and read it tonight.  But if 
> that doesn't help can anyone here help me out?  Thanks

Take a look at the docs for the 'objectIds' method: it returns a list of 
strings, being the ids of the contained objects.

You cannot get attributes off a string. You must get the objects 
themselves. You would probably use 'objectValues' for this.

		--jcc