[Zope] Using Zope Page Templates for forms (tabs of products)

[Josef Albert Meile]

>I have a product for which I am adding another tab, or lable or whatever 
>you call it, that is, I added a dict to manage_options.
>Now, what I'm doing in fact, is turning a script and a template I did to a 
>tab to integrate it in the product.
>I've done everything with zpt (I try to avoid dtml)
Congratulations ;-)

><dtml-var manage_page_header>
>...
><dtml-var manage_tabs>
>...
>and
><dtml-var manage_page_footer>
Take a look at:
http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/ZPT_management.

><dtml-with "_(management_view='Bounce')">
To do this, you have to pass a parameter to the Template like this:

from Products.PageTemplates.PageTemplateFile import PageTemplateFile

_myTemplate=PageTemplateFile('zpt/myTemplateName',globals())

#The management_view attribute is passed to the page template
def manage_something(self):
  """Here some attributes are added to the template"""

  #This is necesary in order to allow other users to access to this template
  _myTemplate._owner=None

  #Adds the management_view attribute to the built-in variable "options"
  return _myTemplate.__of__(self)(management_view='Bounce')

Then you can use it from zpt:
<div tal:define="management_view options/management_view">
  Do something here with management_view
</div>

>And how do I make a call similar to this:
>DTMLFile('dtml/manage_bounceForm', globals())
Already answered, see above.

>but for a zpt (currently, I have the zpt as an object, created in an 
>instance of the product, not as a file on the product, and I'm calling it 
>like this:
>return self.importerTemplate(self, REQUEST, message=None)
Ah, you mean a ZPT on the Zope DB? I've seen this on the source of Siva,
but I don't remmember the proper sintax. However, I found this on my
bookmarks -> I haven't tested it and I don't know if it is the right 
approach:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2004-May/149907.html

This could be useful as well:
http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/DTML2ZPT

Regards,
Josef

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