[Zope] anybody written a "tab folder"/<dtml-tab> feature?

[Mark James Adams]

On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 05:30 AM, "Peter Bengtsson" 
<mail@peterbe.com> wrote:

> the ZMI doesn't have a tab called "widget". Not in any of the 2.2.x or 
> 2.3.x
> or 2.4.x
> Or in other words, I've never seen one.
>
>> The zope management interface has a nice tab folder "widget".  Sure 
>> would
>> be nice if there was a <dtml-tab>
>
> What would a <dtml-tab> do?
> Writing DTML tags is easy if you search for the How-Tos on it and 
> there's
> plenty of examples to download and follow.
>

I believe Albert is thinking of the management tabs in general. By 
widget he means a general method of making such an interface feature.

The management tabs are generated from the manage_options tuple that is 
defined in Python ZClasses (they are done automatically in ZClasses made 
in the ZMI though the View tab).

For example, in one of my Python classes:

manage_options = (
		{'label': 'Meta', 'action': 'manage_metaInfoEditForm'},
		{'label': 'View', 'action': 'index_html'},
	)

If I call <dtml-var manage_tabs> in one of my management screen, then 
the contents of mange_options will be rendered as tabs. I don't know if 
there is any way to use <dtml-var manage_tabs> outside of the management 
screens. Obviously manage_tabs only needs a tuple of dictionaries to 
render the tabs, so there may be a way to make it render an arbitrary 
tuple, not just manage_options.

Hope this helps.

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Mark James Adams
mark@raysend.com