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19 Oct '99

An upgrade to KM|netNews was just released. Everytime I try to import the file, it says "already exists". Simply renaming the current product does not help as I then get "Permission Manage... already exists". I tried renaming those files, but was told that operation could not be performed on these file types. Could someone please be explicit about how to upgrade an existing product in newbie terms? Thanks in advance, Liz Pelletier

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Renderable
by Liz 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

I downloaded the Renderable Product today. I admit I'm a newbie to Zope, but every time I try to add an external method for function Renderable in module Renderable I get an error: function Renderable not found in module Renderable. I can add an external method for other python modules, so I've installed it in the right directory. Besides, it's at least finding the module, so that's telling me it's in the right place. What am I doing wrong? It must be something so obvious... Thanks in advance, Liz Pelletier

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Yes!
by Christopher Rines 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

First let me say YES and THANKS! While not wanting to compare Zope to Cold Fusion or Site Server there is finally an alternative for the rest of us AND it's Open Source! :-) This is exactly (I think) what I've been looking for! I stumbled onto it on Friday night, read everything I could get my hands on by Sunday and am now ready to install it. I do have one HUGE newbie type question for the more experienced user base at large... Currently I have a large base of (IMHO) very nice legacy pages (they include a lot of tables, some with frames, etc. all of which take time to create). They were designed in FrontPage (as I have access to it and Site Server) over the last two months or so and are at the heart of my tiny startup (along with the business logic of course). I would REALLY like to move these pages into Zope rather than reconstruct them as it would have an adverse effect on my sites launch date. Even more so than the moving into Zope itself. Of course I am fully willing to remove everything but standard HTML or anything else that would help the transition. Is it possible? A lot of work? As I haven't installed Zope yet I have not seen or experienced any of the design tools DTML, etc. and I have not found anything really directly related to this in the mail list archives. Of course any help is truly appreciated! Christopher -------------------------------- Christopher Rines Email : crines(a)activepersona.com Web : www.activepersona.com --------------------------------

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Selection Box
by John Glossner 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

I have searched most reference material with no avail to try to find out how to set up a simple selection box. I have a ZClass called LinkClassification to which I have attached a property link_class which is assigned to value link_class_data. My question is where do I create the variable link_class_data? I think it should be as another property in the same directory. When I do this the zope management screen hangs. I presume this is because I did not define the link_class_data property correctly. What are the valid types allowed for a selection box - strings,text,etc.? Does someone have the syntax for how the selection box is assigned a variable? Or is there an example somewhere I can reference? Thanks, John

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PCGI & Windows NT & Zope 2.0.1
by Larry Luther 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Hello, RE: "pcgi-wrapper" for Zope 2.0.1 I'm migrating from 1.10.2 to 2.0.1 and found that pcgi-wrapper doesn't seem to work. Zope 2.0.1 has been installed and I have been able to talk to it via "localhost:8080". Oddly the new pcgi-wrapper does appear to work with 1.10.3. (I had to reinstall this version to get my site back up and running). Comments: The HOW-TO's do not mention to which version of Zope that they apply or sometimes even to which OS they apply. Some docs are just out of touch. For example some refer to Zope.cgi which I NEVER found. Some of the files that I'm supposed to edit for WIN32 start off with "#!/usr/bin..." which is obviously Unix. The instructions to convert the database from 1.10 to 2.0 say "utilities/bbb.py -f var/Data.fs var/Data.bbe" which doesn't work when typed at the command prompt and I couldn't get an "association" built right which could do it. They could have said: "bin\python.exe utilities\bbb.py -f var\Data.fs var\Data.bbe" which gets the job done with no fuss. Thanks, Larry

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To Redirect or not to Redirect, that is the question
by Samu Mielonen 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Uh... how would I put it. I've hit another brickwall :) (I'm ashamed to come to this only to ask for help....) I have problem with rendering images in a sub-sub-sub-folder that are linked with <img src> tags inside a html-document within that same sub-sub-sub-folder. For example: main_index.html 1999 10 1000 1001 1002 (i.e. unique article) index.html (render article visible method) image1 (image within the article) image2 image3 In the above scenario I have an article that can be viewed by calling index.html. This can be done with an easy URL that point to the right index.html and the images within that article folder object are rendered beautifully. However, if I want to call only ONE property of EACH article from within main_index.html (that is at root level), I run into problems if the property I want to display (such as teaser) contains a reference to an image within that article. So, if I from main_index.html do the following: <dtml-with "_[_.str(year)]"> <dtml-with "_[_.str(month)]"> <dtml-in "objectValues('KMArticle')" sort=release reverse> <dtml-var teaser> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> The teaser property for each article is displayed just as I want it to be, but all the image references point to: http://www.mydomain.com/imagename whereas they should point to: http://www.mydomain.com/year/month/articleid/imagename ...in order to be rendered correctly. This is due to the browser still working within the context of main_index.html (that is inside the root folder) and not inside the article folder the property of which I'm about to render. So, my question is: how do I display a property of an object from within a sub-sub-sub-folder while also displaying all inline elements from within that sub-sub-sub-folder to which the property refers to (by use of relative <img src> , <embed> and such html tags)? I know I can do a redirect response, but then it totally jumps to another page (out of my dtml-with recursion) and I can't have that. I need to stay within my loop and also display the images properly for each article. I don't know how to do this. Help :) Best regards, Samu Mielonen PS KMMN is shaping up nicely. I have send an article submittal form, preview an article, send an article for submittal, approve submitted article and publish submitted article (except for the images) working nicely. I'll publish my dtml to anybody interested as soon as I get things wrapped up. -- "The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation." - Albert Einstein

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RE: [Zope] NT User Folder - No Domain support?
by Chris McDonough 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Ian, I haven't looked at the source for the NT User Folder product, but creating the SMB User Folder product was a trivial hack on Michel's etcUserFolder product. Maybe... six lines changed. And that was from Linux using a Python SMB library. It would probably be almost as trivial to change the smbUserFolder product to recognize the platform on which it runs. Then in the code, conditionally import modules (it would need to import some win32 stuff if on NT, or the smb library on UNIX) and conditionally use different SMB validation schemes depending on what OS platform the code detects. here's pseudocode - def authorize: if myplatform == win32: authenticate using markhammond's stuff (win32net) return authentication result elif myplatform == unix: authenticate using smbmodule stuff return authentication result else: return unsupported This seems to me to make more sense than using XML-RPC. It's maybe a 2-hour job. I'd promise to do it, but I'd probably be lying :) Its nuts at work right now. That said, if I get time, I will give it a roll... -----Original Message----- From: Ian Blenke To: zope(a)zope.org Sent: 10/18/99 7:11 PM Subject: [Zope] NT User Folder - No Domain support? After fighting with the "NT User Folder" product for quite a while, I've run across a "feature" :) Unless your NT server is a PDC/BDC for a Domain (so that the local SAM is queried), it isn't possible to use NT User Folder for authentication of users in the Domain. I'm attempting to run Zope on an IIS server that is member server in a Domain, but not a Domain Controller of any kind. The only way to limit access seems to be by adding/deleting local users and putting them in the ACL for HKLM/Software/DigitalCreations/.../Role SO, I'm entertaining alternatives. How can I reference the users in a remote Zope User Folder? It would be nice to be able to put the "smb User Folder" on a Linux server running Zope, and merely XML-RPC the folder lookups from the NT box to the Linux box. Would it be possible to create a regular acl_users folder with the preresiquite methods defined that would merely redirect the "simulated" method to another Zope server? Yes, it's a kludge. Yes it's sick and twisted. The appropriate solution would be to put the Zope server on a BDC. However, I'm not one for the "easy way out" :) - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke(a)2c2.com> <ian(a)blenke.com> _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (Related lists - please, no cross posts or HTML encoding! To receive general Zope announcements, see: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce For developer-specific issues, zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Problems with <dtml-tree>
by Ian Clarke 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Hi, I have been trying to create a site making use of the dtml-tree tag. To get started I tried to follow the "Inplementing a navigation tree" section of the Zbook tutorials. I entered everything more or less exactly as was printed (I made some changes to the HTML output). Everything seems to display correctly when I initially view the page (a tree of my "Outline" folder is displayed), however whenever I click on any of the sub-folders I get the error to be found at the end of this email. Can anyone give me a pointer as to what is going wrong? Also, on a general point - is there any effort being made to make the error reporting system more newbie friendly? Ian. Traceback (innermost last): File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 179, in publish File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 201, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: ElementWithAttributes) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 165, in publish File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: main) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: main) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/OFS/DTMLDocument.py, line 166, in __call__ (Object: main) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: main) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 141, in __call__ (Object: standard_html_header) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: standard_html_header) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/OFS/DTMLDocument.py, line 162, in __call__ (Object: ll_menu) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: ll_menu) File /home/zope/Zope/lib/python/TreeDisplay/TreeTag.py, line 151, in render (Object: Outline) AttributeError: __call__ -- Ian Clarke Email: I.Clarke(a)strs.co.uk Homepage: http://www.gnu.demon.co.uk/ Also see: http://freenet.on.openprojects.net/ "All we see and all we seem is but a dream within a dream"

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Simple newbie question
by Ian Clarke 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Hi, sorry about the undescriptive title, but I couldn't think of a consise way to describe what I want to do, although I am sure that it is a simple thing. Basically I have a SquishDot site within a folder on my zope installation, but I want users to go straight to that site when they look at http://www.mymachine.com/. I (or think I know) how to make zServer run from port 80, but I can't figure out how to make a "shortcut" between the root of the site and the SquishDot folder. I don't want people to have to look at http://www.mymachine.com/squishfldr to see the site, which is the case at present. Any suggestions are most welcome, Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Clarke Email: I.Clarke(a)strs.co.uk Homepage: http://www.gnu.demon.co.uk/ Also see: http://freenet.on.openprojects.net/ "All we see and all we seem is but a dream within a dream"

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Re: [Zope] KM|NetNews
by Kevin Dangoor 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Hello, After much shameful delay, I have finally released KM|Net News 1.0... The previous version had bugs that really needed to be fixed for new people downloading it... You can pick it up at http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/kmnn Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Anders Gaarsdal Holst <anders(a)colorweb.dk> To: zope(a)zope.org <zope(a)zope.org> Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 5:34 PM Subject: [Zope] KM|NetNews >Hallo! > >Anyone knows where I can download KM|NetNews? > >I have tried looking on "www.zope.org" without results. >

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