[Zope] TALES Confusion

[Philip Kilner]

Hi List,

I'm obviously missing something fundamental about how TALES expressions 
work - I can't get the simplest thing that works fine in a ZPT to work 
in a Formulator TALES expression.

Example: -

- In my ZPT, I'm using "user/getUserName", which works perfectly.

- I'd now like to migrate this functionality to a Formulator form, and 
it seems to me that the above is a path expression, so 
"path:user/getUserName" or - since the docs a say that a path expression 
is the default - the original "user/getUserName" (Which I had understood 
/was/ a TALES expression) should work. No such luck - I just get 
variations on the theme of "Key Error" and "global not defined".

I have now descended into that special hell of trying all the 
combinations and permutations, and have run out of options. Could some 
kind soul give me a pointer - this just isn't possible by trial and 
error, and I've now run out of resources...


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Regards,

PhilK

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