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Kaivo MSWordMunger 0.1.1 Released
by Casey Duncan 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

The MSWordMunger is a product designed to ease the translation of MSWord documents into DTML Methods and Documents in Zope. The 0.1.1 releases fixes a bug in the word wrapping code. The product is available for download at: http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/MSWordMunger Enjoy. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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Kaivo Document Library 0.4 Released
by Casey Duncan 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

Kaivo is pleased to announce the 0.4 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 several bugs and adds some new functionality as well. Check it out! http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary Enjoy. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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June 17th Zope Weekly News
by ethan mindlace fremen 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Metadata, Developer's Guide update, new Zope.org progress, Lots of Page Template Proposals, and more in this week's news. The opinions expressed in Zope Weekly News are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. If you or your company are doing something cool with zope, "submit it to Zope Weekly News", mail:zope-web@zope.org for possible inclusion. ------ Upcoming Events EuroZope Conference The EuroZope crew is organizing a two day Zope only conference in Berlin on the 12th and 13th of July. Those interested in participating should join the discussion on the "EuroZope mailinglist", http://www.comlounge.net/mailman/listinfo/eurozope ------ Get Zope T-shirts! Ever have a hankering for a giant blue orb on your back? Well, now you can satisfy your craving. Score some "Zope Shirts":http://www.zope.org/Resources/Store and you'll be set. ------ Zope Developer's Guide by Michel Pelletier I'm happy to announce a new release of the Zope Developer's Guide, "available in HTML format", http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG/ The new guide contains many improvements and elaborations over the previous HTML release, and has benefited from the review and contributions from many community members including well-known object-orienteers Jim Fulton, Guido van Rossum and Bruce Eckel. This will be the last "preview" release of the Dev guide before we release the first edition alongside the release of Zope 2.4. As usual, any problems suggestions should be noted in the "SourceForge tracker", http://sourceforge.net/projects/zope-devel/ ------ CMF News by Seb and Jon Traffic on zope-cmf was a little calmer this week, and the majority of it seemed to come from people noticing that the CMFDecor product doesn't work. Andrew "suggests":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007488.html removing the CMF Decor folder for now. In the mean time, don't worry - it's not an essential part of the CMF. Workgroups It's not always clear how to apply Zope's Security machinery to 'workgroup' scenarios. Jens "posted":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007537.html his ideas for implementing Workgroups in CMF. Shane "showed":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007578.html how you might accomplish a similar thing using his cutting-edge DCWorkflow. The discussion continued in a slightly different direction following "Scott's post":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007577.html on subjects/metadata. Will CMF become the "weapon of choice" for intranet managers? Metadata - The Next Generation The use and application of Dublin Core Metadata has come under scrutiny this week. Tim Lynch "posted":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007434.html some useful background information on the uses of Dublin Core in the "World Outside CMF" (tm) - to which Tres "responded":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007448.html with more details of DC's perspective on the DC. Subclassing the DublinCore each time you want to extend it can be a bit of a pain. Shane "proposes":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007570.html a new implementation; Tres turns fashion-guru and introduces "aspect bags":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007587.html - every well dressed content-object will be carrying one this summer. "Aspect oriented programming":http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/aop/? Lesser mortals reach for their "dictionaries":http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/highley99aspect.html! Bite-Sized Chunks Seb released a "first cut":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007608.html of his Mailin Product. We're one step closer to updating from the beach! Chris W leaked the news that Swishdot will incorporate this functionality, giving a mailinglist/weblog cross - genetic-engineering at its best! Some useful "tips":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007474.html from Jeff on how to get CMFWiki working from CVS... and Tres "clarifies":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007501.html DC's thinking on the future of this product. In short, you can use it, but it's not 'supported' officially. "Zopefish":http://zopefish.weblogs.com/2001/06/08 dives into CMF. Onlookers drool at the prospect of Zopefish/CMF integration! Has anyone told "Dave Winer":http://www.scripting.com? Marc's Colour-Guide undergoes "cosmetic surgery":http://cmf.zope.org/Members/grifter70000/color_guide, courtesy of Dr Grifter. Are you thinking of running several CMFs in the same Zope instance? Want to share common skins? So does "Chris W":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007500.html - Shane "suggests":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007509.html filesystem-based skins The "CMF Dogbowl Calendar":http://cmf.zope.org/calendar/calendar is up and running. One to watch for forthcoming Zope-related events. Silly Stats (last week's figures in brackets):: 159 messages (350) 42 people posted (50) 55% were by 12% of people (70%:40%) 8 bugs were resolved (?) 3 were submitted (?) ------ Page Templates Page Templates are already quite useful, but there's been a lot of activity lately on "proposed changes", http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/ProposedChanges including * Replace Inner Text -- editors tend to be a touch indiscriminant about how they mark up code: your attribute markup can have font tags and other markup inserted inside it. What should happen then? * Variable Expansion in Paths -- it would be nice if the path could include components that are actually variables. * Disappearing tags -- it would be nice if some marked up tags went away after they are done doing their dynamic thing. A new tal attribute and a block tag have been proposed as solutions. * Search And Replace -- somewhat related to the prior issue, having some way of specifying placeholders that indicate items to be replaced in non-marked up text (think JavaScript) would be nice. * Commenting -- A tal:comment directive? There's more! Go to the page templates project and join in the discussion. ------ Zope Web by Ethan Fremen "Zope.org enhancement", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement Skin Madness ...Page Templates are a lot of fun. At the end of this project you'll be able to view_source on the zope.org site and get loads of good ZPT examples! The "workflow", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement/ WorkFlow has received a lot of work, thanks to Jens Vagelpohl. Work on a redirector to support the migration machinery is also near completion, thanks to Andreas Jung. -EOT-

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Calling and returning objects
by Eric Vautour 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Hello all, I have a question that may or may not be answerable. I have a site that is set up as so: There is a something.htm that calles other objects, like so: <dtml-var level1_header> <dtml-var level1_sidebar> <dtml-var l1_phoneit> <dtml-var l1_dialit> <dtml-var l1_findit> <dtml-var level1_footer> I was wondering if there was a way that I could extract the information from this ".htm" object so that I could determine which objects are being called from it, excluding the header, footer, and sidebar. Is this possable? Thanks

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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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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.4.0 alpha 1 released
by Brian Lloyd 31 May '01

31 May '01

Hello all, Zope 2.4.0 alpha 1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0a1/ 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: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0/Zope24MigrationGuide.html 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/2.4.0a1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0a1/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 Note that this is an alpha release, so it is available as a source distribution only. We will make binary releases available with the first beta release. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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