Templates, inheritan ce, etc….

I've got an abstract base template, and Im trying to do a few things,  but I'm not sure of the cheetah way to do it. 

First,  the pages in question are results pages for a search, and as such have a table. There are two things I'm trying to do.

1) I:mplement clickable rows by implementing a click handler on all rows. I've determined that you can't put a block inside a loop, or else cheetah chokes. A def statement seems to cause the same problem, even though I can display the text of the click handler (eg, in a header).

2) Is there anyway in the abstract class to have a conditional block
#if $do_this
Thing to do
#end if
and set $do_this in the ineherited class or in the server url call? It seems to choke for me unless I set $do_this to a value in the abstract class. But then it's not reset in the inherited classs.

Sure part of it is that  I must be mucking up basic python inheritance.

Thanks,
--Marko
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