How to Default the Tile and Email Address on Postings
Posted by on Tuesday July 13, 11:02AM, 2004 from the getting-my-hands-dirty dept.
The "Title" and "Email" boxes on the Posting form (for both Articles and Replies) need to default the user's details (Full Name and Email Address).
This is a requirement from our management :-(
I have added a TinyTablePlus object to the root Squishdot Site Folder called "user_details", with these columns: logonname fullname emailaddress
(All edits of the site will be by authenticated users)
How can I get the posting form to look up the users' logonname (i.e. "markm", and put the relevant fullname and emailaddress into the Name and Email boxes (i.e. "Mark Matthews" and "" ????
Also, I may have to make these same boxes read only as well.
You'll have to find the way to query a TinyTable yourself, I'm afraid I don't know...
After that, insert the required code into the posting form and put it into a hidden input instead of displaying a visible input (->learn more about html ;-)
This doesn't really prevent them from changing things, but will be good enough for most people ;-)
Note: All our zope site users users registered in the ZMI at "Root\acl_users" have names in the format "markm" or "fredb"
First, I made a TinyTable object on the root of the site, i.e. at "ZMI\Root\MySquishdotSite" called "user_details" with columns "logonname fullname emailaddress", and sample data like this;
"markm", "mark Matthews", ""
"fredb", "fred bloggs", ""
Second, to show the login data in the Right Hand Side of the screen below the Rightbbox Methods, in the "Root\MySquishdotSite\misc_methods" folder i made a new DTML Method called "user_detail_info" wit the following script:
User Details
Logged On As
Second (cont) I added this script into the index_html() object's script after it does the rightbox stuff;
Now, the above shows how to get the users' login name, and do lookups based on that. So next was how to use this in the posting windows? well...
Third, to use this in the addPostingForm() I changed the script (in both places where it created the Input controls) to look like this;
Your Email address
(Required if reply notification is checkedOptional)
Basically, you are wrapping up the old script on this object wherever it used to say
and
with the above script.
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How to Default the Tile and Email Address on Postings