News Item: Zope 2.4.0 beta 2 released
Zope 2.4.0 beta 2 has been released - you can download it from
Zope.org:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0b2/
Highlights of what is new in Zope 2.4:
Zope 2.4 supports (and requires) Python 2.1
New restricted execution architecture
WebDAV Level 2 locking support
New "WebDAV Access" permission
A new built-in 'Authenticated' role
Product refresh without restart during development
New "Drop-in indexes" support for ZCatalog
Be sure to see the Zope 2.4 Migration Guide, which outlines the
new features and provides other important information for users
of Zope 2.4.
For more information on what is new in this release, see the
CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0b2/CHANGES.txthttp://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0b2/HISTORY.txt
For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance
for selecting the right distribution and installation
instructions, please see:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html
Hi,
you can now download MetaPublisher 1.2.3 via this URL:
http://www.zope.org/Members/beehive/MetaPublisher123.html/index_html
If your new to MetaPublisher you might not realise
that MetaPublisher was designed to be "pluggable" --
extensible via plug-in interfaces such as "Field Types"
and "Presets".
In addition to a few minor fixes this version of
MetaPublisher includes an extended Image Field Type and
1 new Preset.
Previous versions of MetaPublisher have included basic
Field Types such as Text, Text Area, Email and Image.
With the 1.2.x releases we've modified the Image Field Type
-- which if you have the Python Image Library (PIL)
installed will automatically generate thumbnails for you.
Complementing the Image Field type is the PhotoAlbum preset.
MetaPublisher allows you to save everything you have built
with MetaPublisher as a preset. Presets can be complex,
powerful applications which you would normally only find
as a seperate Zope Product or application. Try out the new
PhotoAlbum preset and we think you'll quickly appreciate
this unique MP feature.
Here's a summary of changes:
Major changes
- you can now write Content Entries to the Interface
- new and improved Image FieldType
- new PhotoAlbum Preset
Minor Changes
- header and footer editable for Interface Entries
- Zope 2.3.x compatibility
- several bug fixes
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mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de
beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de
phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299
Are you tired like I am of fighting with ZCatalog to do what should be
simple queries? Do you wish that you could easily perform complex query
logic with ZCatalogs efficiently and without your head exploding?
Well look no further. The CatalogQuery product solves these problems by
adding an intuitive query interface to ZCatalog. Imagine being able to
do away with kludges like creating special methods just as index targets
or stepping through results to remove duplicates.
This is the first release of this product, so please try it out and let
us know what you think! Since it is a hotfix that makes no changes to
the Zope core, it is as easy to remove as it is to install.
Download at: http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/CatalogQuery
Enjoy.
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| Casey Duncan
| Kaivo, Inc.
| cduncan(a)kaivo.com
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CMF Options 1.1 is released. It includes
a greatly enhanced Blark Weblog!
CMFOptions adds three new content objects to the
CMF: Images and Files that are stored in the
filesystem rather than in the ZODB, and a
Weblog type called Blark.
Blark is a weblog, similar to Slashdot
or Squishdot, but tailored for the CMF.
You can see it work at www.netkook.com. Netkook's front page is a Blark
weblog, customized TOTALLY through the web.
DownLoad!
You can see it's info pages and download it
www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/CMFOptions
This product has been tested with Zope 2.3.2 and 2.3.3. CMF 1.1 is REQUIRED.
CVS-up versions will not be supported for a while - I need a rest!
Questions or comments to jeff(a)sasmor.com
Jeff Sasmor
jeff(a)sasmor.com
www.netkook.com is an "open Zope CMF site"
Hello everyone,
Okay, all good things are three, so here is the last announcement. I also
put SmartSections up on the server. Even though it is a big construction
place, I thought you might want to look at it.
Smart Section allows the End User which cannot write HTML code to design
sites online. This is in particular in CMS solutions very useful., but it's
really hard to describe what it is. It is simpler to just install and use it.
Currently, the SmartSections behave very similar to iuveno's Kontentor
iPages, but this time it is written in Python with as little overhead as
possible and it is blazing fast as far as we can tell.
IMPORTANT: SmartSections requires OrderedFolder!
Download: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/Products/SmartSections
Have fun playing with these new tools and PLEASE feel free to contact me!
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management
Hello everyone,
after a long night with a nice thunderstorm here in Nuremberg, I got the
SmartWizard (first version) finished.
Oh, you want to know what SmartWizard is? SmartWizard is a framework to
generate Wizards for all sort of applications. The wizards are designed for
the End User, so I tried to put some of the common Wizard features in it.
....... if this is getting confusing at any point of time, just jump to the
bottom and try it ;-) .......
The wizard framework uses a very simple, almost totally in DTML implemented
API. All of the required DTML Methods are generated and even pre-filled, so
that you can view the wizard as soon as you got your first page written.
Wizard Pages are the actual screens you are going to see. They also have
always an action associated with them, so you can do some result analysis
before going on to the next page. In order to make it even easier, I have
also built a small Template Engine, with which you can register new Page
templates, in case you have some Pages, which occur over and over again.
Currently I have implemented four Page templates:
o Wizard Form Page - This type of pages contains Entry Forms which are
implemented using the great Formulator.
o Wizard Section Page - This type of page displays a SmartSection as its
main content. Later I want to use it to manipulate the Wizard right from
the view.
o Wizard Products Page - This page checks whether a list of required
Products is already installed on the current Zope location. This is in
particular useful for Installer Wizards, like the Proiektor Installer.
o Wizard Tree Page - This page's purpose is to display an object tree and
let's you choose an object from the list. You can choose in the Properties,
which meta-types are being shown and what the start/default object is.
I would love for people (I mean you guys) to come up with ideas for some
new Page Templates!
Download: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/SmartWizard
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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management
Hello everyone!
OrderedFolder (which is used by SmartWizard) is mainly a little patch to
the _setObject and _delObject method of the ObjectManager to support
'ordering' in ObjectManager-derived objects. It is a really tiny
adjustment, so I hope DC will put it in the core somewhen, since it won't
effect performance.
But in this release I added some support classes (or mix-in --> I just
don't like the word), which allow you additionally to choose the meta-types
that are shown in the Add list and I put the _is_transparent attribute into
the Properties, so that you can activate and deactivate transparency (this
required TranparentFolders of course).
In the next release I am probably going to rename the Product to
ConfigurableFolder, since the current title is too confusing.
Download: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/OrderedFolder
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management
Kaivo, in partnership with Digital Creations offers training classes on
Zope, Python and other open-source technologies. We would like to invite
you to attend our upcoming Zope training classes in sunny Denver,
Colorado August 6th-9th, 2001.
Come and learn Zope from our professional Zope and Python developers!
For more information or to sign up for a class visit our training web
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Space is limited, so sign up now!
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| Casey Duncan
| Kaivo, Inc.
| cduncan(a)kaivo.com
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Kaivo is pleased to announce the 0.5 release of their Zope document
library product.
This product is a fully customizable, drop-in application designed to
give you document categorization and full-text searching in a variety of
file formats. This document file indexing functionality can also be used
separately from the library as well.
The new version fixes a major text-conversion bug and introduces an MS
Excel text indexing converter. Download at:
http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary
Enjoy.
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| Casey Duncan
| Kaivo, Inc.
| cduncan(a)kaivo.com
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