[Zope3-dev] Hidden fields inside Schema Edit View....

[Jim Fulton]

Craig Ewington wrote:
> I've created a view onto a content object.  That view has a link to an 
> edit view generated by the zope.app.form machinery.  I'd like to provide 
> a mechanism that returns the user to the original content view after 
> they click 'Change' at the bottom of the edit form. Absent sessions 
> (using I'm using the 3.0 release version ), one approach would be to 
> propagate the url of the originating view using hidden fields.  There's 
> some precedent for this type of state propagation in the 
> zope.app.form.editwizard.pt template.
> 
> My difficulty is that a different template is used for the default edit 
> view implementations - zope.app.form.edit.pt and it does not support 
> hidden fields per se.
> 
> a) Would it make sense to add hidden field support to 
> zope.app.form.edit.pt?

How would this work?  Would you specify fields to be preserved in
zcml?

Jim

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