[Zope3-Users] Re: redirects in a formlib EditForm

[Gary Poster]

On Feb 27, 2006, at 6:52 AM, jürgen Kartnaller wrote:

> Gary Poster wrote:
[...]
>> Yes, we write custom templates that use hidden input fields.  We  
>> reuse
>> the existing template by putting the default template on another
>> attribute of the view class, and then saying 'metal:use- 
>> macro="view/...'
>>
>> For instance
>>
>> class MyForm(zope.formlib.form.EditForm):
>>     base_template = zope.formlib.form.EditForm.template
>>     template = (...a named template if you want, or just a page  
>> template
>> directly...)
>>
>> Then in your template, you can refer to macros in the original  
>> like this:
>>
>>     'metal:use-macro="view/base_template/macros/extra_info"'
>
> Thanks a lot for this.
>
> The above metal statement doesn't work, I do it this way :
>   metal:use-macro="view/base_template/macros/main"
> and then
>   metal:fill-slot="extra_info"

Heh, yeah.  Thanks for clarifying.

Gary