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SmartWizard released
by Stephan Richter 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

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 -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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by Stephan Richter 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

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 -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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Denver Zope Training Class
by Casey Duncan 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

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 site at: http://www.kaivo.com/KaivoCourses/catalog or call us at: 303.539.0200 Space is limited, so sign up now! -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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Kaivo DocumentLibrary 0.5 Released
by Casey Duncan 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

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. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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EventFolder 1.3 release
by Jeff Sasmor 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

EventFolder 1.3 release On the heels of a defective (and hastily pulled-back) 1.2 release, here's version 1.3! For changes, see: http://www.netkook.com/nk/Members/jeff/ef/changes A FAQ: http://www.netkook.com/nk/Members/jeff/ef/faq You can see it in operation here: http://www.netkook.com/nk/Members/jeff/ef/ and download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/EventFolder This product NO LONGER requires the Renderable ZClass product. Jeff Sasmor jeff(a)sasmor.com www.netkook.com is an "open Zope CMF site"

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Formulator 0.9.5 released
by Martijn Faassen 27 Jun '01

27 Jun '01

Hi there, I've just released Formulator 0.9.5. Many thanks in particular go to Stephan Richter, who contributed much that is in this release. Formulator 0.9.5 comes with six new field types: FileField: uploading files (if form encoding is set to multipart/formdata). LinkField: enter URLs; these URLs can be automatically verified (to a limited extent). MultiListField: a list field that allows multiple selections. MultiCheckBoxField: select multiple checkboxes. LinesField: enter lines of text into a textarea. PatternField: experimental field that allows pattern-based validation. To download and for more information, go here: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator Have fun! Suggestions are always welcome. Regards, Martijn

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Zope BackTalk Working Session Invite
by Chris McDonough 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

(details also available via http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/BackTalkWorkingSession/) INTRODUCTION If you're a seasoned Zope, Python, or collaborative technology developer, you're invited to Crested Butte, Colorado between July 7 (Sat) - 10th (Tues) to help in a "working session" which has as a goal developing a 1.0 version of a "BackTalk" implementation for Zope. The working session is primarily a time for quickly iterating against an existing implementation, adding features and hardening as we go. If you come, you'll have an opportunity to meet other Zope and Python developers and have some fun hacking around on a neat project. This is *not* a seminar or teaching exercise, and thus is unstructured. We'll likely use some of the concepts from Extreme Programming (pairing, short iterations, etc), to keep us busy during the working session. Ideally, participants will have built Zope Products in the past. COST Free WHO WILL BE ATTENDING - Bruce Eckel (President, MindView, and author of Thinking In (Java|C++) and other books) - Chris McDonough (developer, Digital Creations) - You! WHAT IS BACKTALK "BackTalk" is an annotation and collaboration system devised by Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners. It is described at http://www.mindview.net/Books/BackTalk and http://www.mindview.net/Private/BackTalk . It is first and foremost a system which allows for inline commenting on prestructured content. It is close in sprit to systems such as Crit (http://www.crit.org) and Andamooka (http://www.andamooka.org) ** note: although the MindView documentation talks about BackTalk as nonfree software, it is describing the Java implementation. The Zope software produced as a result of the working session will be free ** BackTalk has two major design goals: - dramatically lower the bar for readers to provide inline comments on booklike content. - provide mechanisms for original document authors to fold contributions in the way of comments into the mainline document. IMPLEMENTATION GOALS Produce a Zope implementation of BackTalk which makes use of Zope-only features such as Structured Text (http://cmf.zope.org/doc/user/UsingStructuredText.txt/view) and the Zope object database [ZODB] (http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles/ZODB1) A prototype Zope implementation is (hopefully) accessible at http://serenade.4-am.com/BackTalkSandbox/ . If you have difficulty accessing the prototype, please let me know via email (it's a development box). IMPLEMENTATION HIT LIST (we might need you if you know anything about...) - BackTalk "back/forward" navigation system (DTML/Python) - BackTalk document end-of-document index generation (Python) - Table of contents generation (DTML/Python) - RTF-to-StructuredText converter (Python/C/whatever) - BackTalk-to-RTF converter (Python) - BackTalk-to-PDF converter (Python) - Javascript form elements (JavaScript) WHEN DOES THE SESSION START/END From: Saturday, July 7, 2001 To: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 session days begin at 9, end at 5. WHERE IS THE SESSION Crested Butte, Colorado (exact location in town to be announced) Directions and location details are available from http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/Locations/CrestedButte/CrestedButte.html HOW DO I SIGN UP Sign up via the registration system at http://www.mindview.net/Seminars/BackTalkWorkingSession. We have as a limit about 15 people. Hopefully, I'll see you there! - C

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.3 released
by Brian Lloyd 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Hello all, Zope 2.3.3 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.3/ Zope 2.3.3 is a relatively minor bug-fix release. It contains fixes for a few issues since 2.3.2 and includes the fixes included in all hotfix releases to date. The main goal of the 2.3.3 release is to make sure that the latest "stable" release distribution is up to date regarding hotfixes. 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/2.3.3/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.3/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 Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Formulator 0.9.4 is released
by Martijn Faassen 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Hi there, I've just released Formulator 0.9.4. The main new feature is more online help (API documentation and a HOWTO). There are also a few minor feature additions (render method for forms) and bugfixes. To find more information and to download Formulator, go here: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator Regards, Martijn

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CMF 1.1 Released
by Tres Seaver 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Digital Creations is pleased to announce the 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 - The CMF "dogbowl" site, http://cmf.zope.org. - The mailing list, zope-cmf(a)zope.org. o List information and online signup are available at: http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf. o Archives of the list are at: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf. Download - Get the "tarball", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.1/CMF-1.1.tar.gz Installation - Please see "Installing CMF", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.1/INSTALL.txt >From the Changelog: New features - Landed "skinned folder" module, which permits creation of "folderish" types with customized replacements for 'index_html'. - Added 'run_all_tests' script, to simplify running all unit tests for CMF-related products. - Factored out index and column lists, to ease customization (Tracker #289) - Modified 'DefaultDublinCoreImpl.setContributors' to use new tuplize functionality (the ability to pass in a different splitter function). If a string is passed in to setContributors(), it gets split on semicolons. This allows setting of contributor strings to be like "Doe, John E (john(a)doe.a.deer) The Mertz Family Foundation; PBS" If one so deeply and dearly desired. (The above would turn into a three element tuple). - Made it possible to map "normal" Zope objects as content (Tracker #283): o Skin and tool code which used to query the object for its Type in order to then ask the types tool for a TypeInfo object now just asks the types tool for type TypeInfo object directly. o Modified the TypesTool interface to signal that passing an object to 'getTypeInfo' is acceptable, with the semantic that the tool will attempt to find a TypeInfo object based on the tool's type or metatype. - Expanded signature of Document.CookedBody to change the header levels Structured Text starts rendering at, and whether to preserve those changes. Bug fixes - Hardened DirectoryView against objects which raise exceptions during initial reads (typically due to permission problems); these objects now capture and log the exception, and create a BadFile object which allows browsing the traceback via the ZMI (Tracker #317). - Stopped polluting the browser with persistent skin cookie; clear it as well on logout (Tracker #304). - Cleaned up folder content filtering (Tracker #298, thanks to Chris Withers for the patch). - Implement new "List folder contents" permission (Tracker #320), to prevent non-privileged users from being able to browse 'folder_contents' (permission is by default mapped to 'Owner' and 'Manager'). Note that this is really only a UI change: 'PortalFolder.contentIds', 'PortalFolder.contentValues', and 'PortalFolder.contentItems' are still public, to allow for reasonable "site map" views on folders. - Use saner type ID listing in 'search_form' (Tracker #324). - Rewired "POST target" skin methods, replacing filesystem-based DTML Methods with filesystem-based Python Scripts (from Tracker #301 -- thanks to Chris Withers). - Implemented *LARGE* patch to CMFDefault.DiscussionItem and CMFDefault.DiscussionTool, plus removal of CMFDefault.Discussions: changed threading strategy to remove dependency on the path of the "host" content object. Includes an ExternalMethod, CMFDefault/Extensions/update_discussion.py, which must be run to convert existing content which contains discussion. - Overrode DublinCore's isEffective in CMFCalendar.Event to always return true; this change prevents blocking view of the event by standard_html_header. - Updated INSTALL.txt to note that: o Use with Zope 2.4.0a1 is *not* recommended. o CMFDecor requires Zope Page Templates (Tracker #291). and to describe upgrade process from CMF 1.0. - Fixed typo in 'Unauthorized' exception raised by 'PortalContent._getDefaultView'. - Made all content types findable by catalog (Tracker #286). - Ensured that ContentTypeRegistry's "Test" tab doesn't puke if no MIMEtype is entered, or if one is entered which doesn't have a '/' in it (Tracker #292). - Suppressed overwrite of Subject when no 'Subject' or 'Keywords' headers were present (Tracker #294). - Ensured that 'Type' is indexed in newly-created 'portal_catalog'. - Fixed acquisition stripping in PortalContent.objectItems(). - Modified CMFDefault.DublinCore.getMetadataHeaders() to join Subject by commas, instead of spaces. Since we parse/split Subject on commas or semicolons now when a document is saved by FTP or WebDAV, we need to feed it out in the same format. - Fleshed out security declarations for 'portal_metadata' tool. - Corrected pathname of 'MemberDataTool.memberdataContents' to account for use of '_dtmldir' (thanks to Ricardo Newbery for the patch!). - Fixed buglet resulting from uninitialized local in 'PortalContent.objectItems' (thanks to Seb Bacon for the patch). - Modified stock 'search_form' to query 'Type' rather than 'meta_type'. - Removed debugging / "paranoia" print statements (thanks to Chris Withers for the patches). In the best traditions of open-source and free software, I am heading out of town tomorrow for a long vacation. Enjoy! Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver(a)digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org

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