[Zope] display object without index_html

[Jim Abramson]

Though less elegant, perhaps this will work:

dtmlIndex = DTMLFile('dtml/indexHomepage', globals())  
def index_html(self):
    """
    docstring!
    """
    return self.dtmlIndex(self,self.REQUEST)

hth,
Jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-bounces+jabramson=wgen.net at zope.org 
> [mailto:zope-bounces+jabramson=wgen.net at zope.org] On Behalf 
> Of Christopher Rivard
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] display object without index_html
> 
> i am developing a Zope product (2.7) with a "homepage" 
> content type and want this object to display as the index of a folder.
> for other custom objects, i have display methods that call an 
> index view ( using DTMLFile) of the object like this:
> 
> #homepage view
> index_html = DTMLFile('dtml/indexHomepage', globals())
> 
> i want this object to display as the index of the folder without:
> 
> folder/index_html/index_html
> 
> however, when i render the object, i get:
> 
> <Homepage at index_html>
> 
> remove display:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/www/index_html/index_html has an empty 
> or missing docstring. Objects must have a docstring to be published.
> 
> how can i ensure that an "homepage" object with an id of 
> index_html will display as the index of a folder (without 
> calling folder/index_html/index_html)?
> i hope i explained this coherently...
> 
> any insight would be greatly appreciated-
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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