-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jurian Botha wrote: > I'm currently developing some customized ZMI pages and I was hoping someone > could give me some insight into what the best way would be to do this. > > I see that Zope 2 uses dtml methods to build the standard ZMI pages but as > far as I know (Zope 3 wise) I should rather be using Zope Page Templates to > build the pages. > > I would also like the product to gracefully move on to Zope 3 in future, so > that should be taken into consideration as well. > > Are there perhaps some existsing templates for ZMI that can also be used > with Zope 3?
You could choose to use a 'zmi_master' template which looked like so::
<metal:x metal:define-macro="master">
<tal:x tal:replace="structure context/manage_page_header" />
<tal:x tal:replace="structure context/manage_tabs" />
<div metal:define-slot="main">
Non-boilerplate goes here.
</div>
<tal:x tal:replace="structure context/manage_page_footer" />
</metal:x>
If you registered that template as a view in your product's
'configure.zcml', e.g.:
<browser:page
for="*"
name="zmi_master"
template="zmi_master.pt"
/>
you can then use it in your own ZMI templates, e.g.:
<html metal:use-macro="context/@@zmi_master/macros/master">
<body>
<div metal:fill-slot="main">
<h1> Test ZMI Macro </h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have attached a tarball of a simple Zope2 product which does this.
After installation, you should be able to visit
http://localhost:8080/zmi_test to see the results.
Tres.
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