tav, try manage_changeProperties(page_owner=AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()) ----- Original Message ----- From: "tav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] anyone skilled in the ways of changing page properties? > Chris Withers wrote: > > > Try changing all your _[pagename] to _.getitem(pagename,0), > > especially when you're getting errors about strings not having > > attributes. > > Chris, you are a star! > > I made the whole of the site in two days, but wasnt able to work out this > particular problem for over another two days!. learnt a lot of dtml in an > attempt to do so, but still hadnt solved it :/ > > once again, thanks Chris for the lifesaver. Also, special thanks to AdamK, > who followed me up on IRC, and helped resolve it. > > now, only one more thing needs resolving... <g> ... when i do the following: > > manage_changeProperties(page_owner=AUTHENTICATED_USER) > > i get the error > > ------------- > Error Type: ValueError > Error Value: Invalid property value: wrapped object > ------------- > > course, if i put ' ' around AUTHENTICATED_USER, it works but it then uses > that literally, which is not what is needed. any ideas as to how i can > insert the username into the property field? > > much appreciated, and once again, thanks in advance. > > -- > best regards, tav > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )