[Zope] Keeping data throughout a session

[Chris Withers]

(loose the html mail please!)

Michael.Rinner at cellzome.com wrote:

> Now I could simply use hidden input fields and carry the values over and 
> over from one page to another, but that seems quite an awkward way to do 
> this. So I store them as Session data, which works fine so far except 
> for if a user opens several browser windows, which however happens quite 
> often. In that case, changes done in one window affect the selection in 
> another window, as there is only one shared session object obviously.

You're trying to beat HTML into doing something it's nto designed to do ;-)

> Does anyone have an idea what the best way would be to handle this? 

Your best bet is to have a "window id" which you send out and then maintain in a 
hidden input of request path variable which identifies which window is which and 
use that to create dictionaries in the session for each window...

cheers,

Chris

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