New Message: manilaMacros.viewDirectory and Static Rendering

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Address: http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$9033

By: Tom Clifton (tclifton at es-designs.com)

The behavior of this macro is inconsistent when called during static rendering. If a home page is rendered, the top level of the directory appears on the home page as expected. If any other page/story is rendered, however, the macro returns "[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "method" hasn't been defined.]"

The error is generated when manilaSuite.viewDirectory asks
if pta^.method == "GET"

Apparently, method is not defined in pta^ when stories are rendered, but is defined and set to "GET" when the home page is rendered. Testing for and setting pta^.method to "GET" allows viewDirectory to produce the same results on static renderings of both the home page and stories.

I don't know which behavior is "correct", though I like being able to render the top level of a directory on a static page.

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