Several /@@asPDF views for same content [SOLVED]

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Is it possible to make several asPDF views with Produce&Publish for the same content ?

I have one view that converts to 'one page', and one that makes 'one page for each users (so the same as the other, it just includes the name).

I was hoping for something like

http://path/to/page/asPDF

and

http://path/to/page/asPDF?to_each_member

Where one would use template 'one.pt' and the other 'many.pt'

PS: Currently I use plone.api to get the users, so I don't think I can do the looping in TAL. Please correct me if I am wrong.

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This is likely possibly by writing a dispatcher view that dispatches/redirects to dedicated views based on query/URL parameters. I have not looked into the particular part of my implementation, but within a brower view you can have either a rendering template associated through ZCML or by a configuration with the browser view Python class. The __call__() implementation has full access to the request and can instantiate a ViewPagetemplate with some arbitrary template based on URL parameters.

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Thanks.
I did not figure out why I could not define the template inside call(), but this seems to work:

class PDFView(BrowserView):
""" Converter view for making PDF
"""

    template = ViewPageTemplateFile('topdf.pt')
    template2 = ViewPageTemplateFile('many.pt')

    def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
        if hasattr(self.request, 'everybody'):
            self.template = self.template2

        return self.template(self.context)