June 2001 - Zope-Announce

EventFolder 1.2 release
by Jeff Sasmor 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Hard on the heels of the last release: New release of 'EventFolder', Version 1.2 has been added to Zope.org. It's a drop-in black-box that implements a Event Calendar. You can see it in operation here: http://www.netkook.com or download it here: http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/EventFolder Jeff Sasmor jeff(a)sasmor.com

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Formulator 0.9.3 released
by Martijn Faassen 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Hi there, Today I've released version 0.9.3 of Formulator. It features among other things the long awaited support for radio buttons. Other new features are the 'override tab' (use a Python script for any field property) and extended form properties (use form.header() and footer() to draw even more of the form using Formulator), and more. We also now have a mailing list for discussion of Formulator use and further development, and public CVS archive. For more information and to download Formulator go to: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator Regards, Martijn

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EventFolder 1.1
by Jeff Sasmor 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

New release of 'EventFolder', Version 1.1 has been added to Zope.org. It's a drop-in black-box that implements a Event Calendar. You can see it in operation here: http://www.ptang.com or download it here: http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/EventFolder Jeff Sasmor jeff(a)sasmor.com

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Zope-Dev Summaries
by Erik Enge 06 Jun '01

06 Jun '01

Zopistas! During my last project I drowned myself in work and didn't really have time to contribute much to the community, or to keep track of what has been going on. Things are better now, so I have some time to read the lists, and post every now and then. One thing I missed greatly, when I was drowning myself, was to be able to get a snapshot of what's been going on with Zope lately. What's the major architectural changes; have the community mob been out to hang anyone; any major bugs or upsets; new Fishbowl proposals, and the like. Information that gets me up-to-speed whenever I have time. ZWN is quite good, but it doesn't give the developer an idea of what API changes has been made or what little new thing that will make our lives so much easier - that's the kind of things I'd like to see showing up in the summaries. Michael Hudson's <URL:http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/> have been a great success in doing this for python-dev, and Zope-Dev Summaries is basically trying to copy that effort. Sure, ZopeZen, ZopeNewbies, ZWN, all the mailinglists, ZopeFish, and many other good zope-sites out there provide good information and fun in the context of Zope, but I can't see that any of them is to Zope, what python-dev summaries are to Python (of course, if you see it differently I'd like to hear about it - duplication isn't something I like throwing time at). If anyone wants to help out and write a summary or two every now and then, please e-mail me and I'll be happy to share the fun! :) Summaries can be found here: <URL:http://nittin.net/erik/summaries/> Oh, and go easy on me, this is the first summary and the next one will be better. Comments are greatly appretiated :)

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CMF 1.1beta released
by Tres Seaver 01 Jun '01

01 Jun '01

Digital Creations is pleased to announce the beta release of version 1.1 of its Content Management Framework (CMF). >From the README: What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Resources * "Download the CMF", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.1beta/CMF-1.1beta.tar.gz * The "CMF site", http://cmf.zope.org. * The "mailing list", mailto:zope-cmf@zope.org. - "List information and online signup", http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf. - "Archives of the list", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf. Installation Please see "Installing CMF", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.1beta/INSTALL.txt >From the Changelog: New features - Added CMFCore.utils.keywordsplitter to construct 'Subject' dublin core header from both 'Keywords' and 'Subject' headers passed in (meta tags/rfc822). - CMF Document now uses StructuredTextNG for structured text handling. Nicely enough, it uses the "with images" features, and also enables named and inner links. - CMF Document exposes two new accessor methods for getting at the "cooked" and editable body, 'CookedBody()', and 'EditableBody()'. Using the 'cooked_text' and 'text' instance attributes should be considered deprecated. - Added new "exemplar" content product, CMFCalendar, which (for now) adds a simple content object, Event. This product serves a similar didactic purpose as CMFTopic (which is now "in the core"): it shows how to build new content types as filesystem products. - Implemented improved "safety belt" for concurrent Document editing. See the dogbowl proposal, http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/ContentSafetyBelt - Added new filesystem-based skin method type, FSSTXMethod, for creating "methods" which render STX. - Exposed "controlled vocabulary" for Subject in 'metadata_edit_form'. - Gave 'portal_skins' tool its own PUT_factory (Tracker #238). Allows site builder to create skin methods via WebDAV/FTP, including ZPT, PythonScripts, etc. - Implemented "outbound" segment of the "Syndication tool" proposal, q.v., http://cmf.zope.org/CMF/Members/andrew/folderRSS - Made 'PUT_factory' use new 'content_type_registry' tool. - Made 'PUT_factory' use 'invokeFactory', so that objects created via PUT have their 'portal_type' set properly. - Added ContentTypeRegistry class and related predicates for mapping PUT requests (name,content_type,body) to type object names. - Allowed Reviewers to "retract" published content owned by others. - Added "Overview" ZMI view to tools. - Added "Dublin Core" ZMI view to PortalContent; added an editing view for Document and derivatives. - Added "drop-in" workflow objects to the WorkflowTool, including the ability to map workflows onto content types. - Changed CMFDefault.Portal to install CMF Topic by default when building a new CMF Site. - Added a new criteria type, *FriendlyDateCriterion*, to CMFTopic for building queries like 'When effective_date is less than five days old'. - Implemented 'portal_metadata' tool. See the dogbowl proposal, http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/completed/metadata_tool. - Extended DirectoryView objects to reload when the directory they represent has changed, if Zope is running in debug mode. - Added hooks to CookieCrumbler to permit site managers to customize seting/expiring of the authentication cookie by adding PythonScripts; two default filesystem implementations are in CMFDefault's "control" skin. - Extended TypesTool to deal appropriately with DTML factory methods (e.g., for ZClasses). - Made FSDTMLMethods searchable from the ZMI (Issue PTK(251)[]). - plus numerous bugfixes. Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver(a)digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org

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