October 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

Test please ignore -- RTF
by dale w lance 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Ive been told I'm posting RTF this is a test to see if I have fixed it please forgive the intrusion

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RE: [Zope] Webfolders and IE5
by Paul Everitt 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Ian wrote: > Here's a little snippet for those of you stuck with IE5 to > show the current > page as an IE5/Office2000 webfolder. None of this will work > for *any* other > browser. Don't blame me :) [snip] Wow, what a wonderful piece of information to know! I'll look at adding this as something on Zope.org from a Member's preferences page. Another MS specific thing I've been doing a lot lately is Office2k's new HTML file format, kind of an MSXHTML thingie. We needed a way to paginate and desktop publish the various structured text documents we author as part of the Unified Process we use here for consulting gigs. Since (a) the new format is a clear-text compatible language, and (b) Zope is WebDAV compatible, we can get Zope to cobble together numerous documents into one long Word Document. Even better, what you're actually viewing in Word is generated from different DTML methods, meaning we can give different contents based on things like queries, the role of the user, etc. I'm modelling our sales funnel in Excel based on data pumped from an XML Document through various DTML methods that give me different detail. It's really cool! > All of this was found on a Microsoft webpage while looking > for "WebDAV" and > "WebFolders" - but I've already lost the link. If you find it > again, you may > wish to post it here. How anyone can find anything on the > Microsoft website > is beyond me. Yes, I spent literally 4 hours scouring their website and the web at large for some kind of documentation of this damn MSXHTML-like markup language they use. I want to modify the Excel spreadsheet and, using WebDAV, save it back to Zope, which would parse it and update things. I'm a damn, damn good web scourer, and eventually concluded that Microsoft intentionally doesn't document it. Believe it or not, their DTD declaration points to an ActiveX control. Thus, their DTD is a non-published, compiled, binary, internal thing. Unreal. --Paul

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Zope - using dtml-tree to browse the database ?
by Kulpinski, Dejan 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Hello, Does anybody know how to use dtml-tree to make a database browser (using Document object as an argument to the leaves argument - as mentioned on page 50 of Zope Document Template Markup Language Reference) ? Dejan Kulpinski

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Tiny Table and Zclasses problem
by Bill Anderson 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

So, here I am working on a Zclass (call it foo), which inherits ffrom Catlog and ObjectManager, which I have ,limited to File, Image, and TinyTable allowed to be added. When I add a file or image, all is well. however, when I add a TinyTable, the table is actually added to the folder containing the Zclass instance, and the screen is the contents screen for it, with the url being mungeds, as such: /Stuff #main folder \ --Object # A foo instance Here, I try to add tinytable "MYTable" to Object from the drop down box, and a file "Afile" I get the following: Folder at /Stuff/Object |--Object |-- Afile |--MYTable And the url displayed on the contents page is: /Stuff/Object but, as you can hopefully see, is displaying the contents to /Stuff Zope 2.01, latest TinyTables. Any ideas? -- Bill Anderson Linux/Unix Administrator, Security Analyst ESBU (ARC) banderson(a)boi.hp.com My opinions are just that; _my_ opinions.

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zclass suggestion
by Peter Sabaini 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

hubu just a suggestion: i'd find it useful you could specify "destructor objects" along with "constructor objects" when defining zclasses. with constructor objects i define what should happen when producing an instance of a zclass. with a destructor object i could specify what will happen upon deletion of that object (eg. syncing with other data sources). right now i only have the option of messing with much of the manage_ methods (i think?) peter. -- _________________________________________________ peter sabaini, mailto: sabaini(a)niil.at -------------------------------------------------

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Webfolders and IE5
by Ian Blenke 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Here's a little snippet for those of you stuck with IE5 to show the current page as an IE5/Office2000 webfolder. None of this will work for *any* other browser. Don't blame me :) -- Option #1--- In your stylesheet, add the following: A { behavior: url(#default#AnchorClick); color: #000000; } Then, whenever you use the "FOLDER=" option in an Anchor, when you click on the link - the WebFolder will be shown (using WebDAV access): <A HREF="/webfolder" FOLDER="" >View WebFolder</A> Note, the HREF in the above example is ignored - but I've included it to start the below method in case the stylesheet change wasn't present. You *do* need an HREF, but it should point to a page telling users that they have the wrong browser to accomplish this function (or something to that effect). -- Option #2 --- If the above solution is too painful, you can also create a wrapper method and do generally the same thing. Simply cut the following and put it in a "webfolder" method in the root of your site. Then merely append a "/webfolder" to any directory to view it as an IE webfolder: (NOTE: This DOES NOT WORK with Netscape) <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> <STYLE> .httpFolder {behavior: url(#default#httpFolder);} </STYLE> <SCRIPT> function init(){ oDAV.navigateFrame("","_self"); } </SCRIPT> <BODY ONLOAD="init()"> <DIV ID = "oDAV" CLASS = "httpFolder" > </BODY> </HTML> All of this was found on a Microsoft webpage while looking for "WebDAV" and "WebFolders" - but I've already lost the link. If you find it again, you may wish to post it here. How anyone can find anything on the Microsoft website is beyond me. Hope this helps someone. - Ian C. Blenke <ian(a)blenke.com> <icblenke(a)2c2.com>

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Re: [Zope] Servlets anyone?
by Andrew M. Kuchling 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Amos Latteier writes: >You could write a servlet publisher for Zope which would take requests, >turn them into PCGI (or some other protocol that ZServer speaks) and send >them to ZServer. This wouldn't be too hard for an experienced servlet >writer. Note that mod_jserv for Apache works in a very PCGI-like way; amodule inside Apache talks some simple protocol to a long-running Java process. Speculating wildly, it should be possible to throw away mod_jserv, re-implement the protocol, and talk directly to the long-running process. We have numerous things implemented as servlets, so I've thought about this a bit, but haven't done any serious work on it. -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. -- Terry Pratchett, _Interesting Times_

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Where can I find CookieCutter & Session Object products?
by Ping Lau 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

I am trying to pass info from one form to another without using many hidden form variables. I searched through the mailing archive & found someone mentioned the CookieCutter & Session Object products. Can anyone please tell me where to get them? Or, if you have a copy, would you mind emailing them to me, please? Thanks. Regards, Ping

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RE: [Zope] DTML vs. DW2 extensions
by Michel Pelletier 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Johan Carlsson [mailto:johanc@torped.se] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:28 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] DTML vs. DW2 extensions > > > Is it possible to use; > > <dtml-var name="something" html_quote=""> > > instead? Sure. Although I would suggest html_quote=1 looks more 'pythonic'. setting it to an empty string makes it looks like you are setting it to a python false value. -Michel > > Regards, > Johan > > torped > johan carlsson > birkagatan 9 > 113 36 stockholm > telefon 08-32 31 23 > mobil 070-558 25 24 > fax 08-32 89 47 > johanc(a)torped.se > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Servlets anyone?
by Joe Grace 07 Oct '99

07 Oct '99

Hi, is anyone using Servlets with Zope? Tips, pointers, and suggestions on how to integrate them with Zope would be much appreciated. Thanks, = Joe =

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