Hi again, Tres!
Can you point as where we can find this kind of help? Are there some
reference manual or similar? (I'm using Zope2) Perhaps on Five manual?

Thanks a lot!

2008/1/15, Tres Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> 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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