[Zope] selected in select lists

[J Cameron Cooper]

Garry Saddington wrote:
> 
> I have a variable called 'groupabbrev' in the REQUEST. I am trying to 
> automatically select an option in a select list based on this variable.
> I have tried this code and many others, and many googles but have not 
> found anything that works. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?
> 
> 
> <select name="groupabbrev">
> <dtml-in getpastoralgroups>
> <option value="<dtml-var groupabbrev>" <dtml-if 
> expr="'groupabbrev'==_['sequence-item']"> selected</dtml-if> ><dtml-var 
> groupabbrev></option>
> </dtml-in>
> </select>

Why have you put 'groupabbrev' in quotes? That makes it a string, and 
the condition will only be true when the current item is equal to 
"groupabbrev".

Presumably you want the value of the variable named that, rather than a 
string of that name.

Also, watch the values of what 'getpastoralgroups' returns. The 
condition will never be true if they are not strings or converted into such.

		--jcc
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