[Zope] dtml sessions

[Andy Kim]

No, I am not using the user system here.
It is just a simple use.
All I want is to put a session-conditional call for a dtml method within a
simple page with this method.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Allison" <allison at shasta.stanford.edu>
To: "Andy Kim" <dobedo at gmail.com>
Cc: "Andreas Jung" <lists at andreas-jung.com>; <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] dtml sessions


>
> Ah ha!  you have as method that is supposed to be private to a particular
> user.   You should set the view permission for the method to be
> "Authorized User" and have the method test for the particular user and
> do nothing if the current user is not the right one.
>
> A more general mechanism would be to create a local role for privileged
> users and set the view permission for the dtml-method to be that role.
> The you can give any user that role in acl_users and they will
> automagically have access rights to that method.
>
> Good web design suggests that the navigation to this special method be
> controlled by the role as well so there's no button to push if the user
> is not allowed to push the button.
>
>
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Andy Kim wrote:
>
> > No, not just only once but rather for one browser session.
> > If the page is reloaded again the method shouldnt be called.
> > Only if the user comes for a next visit, the method should be called
again.
> > It actually should be easy, I'm just not familiar with dtml programming
yet.
> > However I'd like to have it with dtml since I have the dtml-call
> > method already using..
> >
> > On 6/18/05, Andreas Jung <lists at andreas-jung.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > --On 18. Juni 2005 18:16:48 +0200 Andy Kim <dobedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm a beginner.
> > > > I'd like allow a dtml method call e.g. <dtml-call method> for one
session
> > > > only. how do I do this with dtml?
> > > > could anyone help me?
> > >
> > > What do you mean by that? Should it callable only once? If yes then of
> > > course use a flag which you can store inside the user session.
> > >
> > > -aj
> > >
> > >
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