[Zope3-Users] View with template

Fri Oct 28 04:45:46 EDT 2005

Hi,

a short introduction first:

I'm Frank Burkhardt, working at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. My
employer wants a new website to replace the old one (www.cbs.mpg.de - yes,
it looks really really ugly). We chose Zope3 to implement it.
Maybe there will be one or two questions on the way which is the reason
why I joined this list :-) .

Here is the first one:

I assigned a view to my brandnew content class:

  <browser:page
     for=".test.ITest"
     name="index.html"
     permission="zope.Public"
     class=".test.TestView"
     template="view.pt"
  />

This is what I think this xml-statement should do:

When http://zope/test/index.html is called, the template
"view.pt" is evaluated which has access to the View-class
"TestView".

view.pt:
--------
<html metal:use-macro="context/@@standard_macros/view">
<div metal:fill-slot="body">
	<div tal:replace="view"></div>
</div>
</html>

But whenever I define TestView.__call__ the template is not evaluated but
the result of TestView.__call__ is returned directly.

How can Zope be forced to use the template instead of __call__ing
the TestView-Object?

Regards,

Frank