November 1999 - Zope

Zope in education
by Timothy Wilson 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

Hi everyone, When I first became interested in Zope, I posted a question to the Zope list inquiring about potential uses in education. (See archive at http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007378.html) There wasn't much response then, but now I'm convinced that we've reached some sort of critical mass of interest in using Zope in K-12 and higher education. In the past week alone, I've seen several posts from individuals or groups who are independently developing to planning to develop Zope apps. It seems to me that those who are interested in this area should be combining their efforts to accomplish their goals. I'm planning to pursue a grant to support something like this (more later) from the state of Minnesota and would love to hear from others. In a nutshell, I'm going to propose in my grant request that a connection be developed between our administrative database and our school's Web site. Most schools, even ones that aren't particularly technologically advanced, use some sort of administrative software for doing scheduling, attendance, recording grades for transcripts, etc. In our case we work with a consortium called TIES (http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/) that provides those services for us and many other school districts in Minnesota. I'd like to develop a system whereby students, teachers, or parents can log in to our Web site and immediately have access to information about the students. In other words, let's say that the teachers have some way to put assignments for their classes on the Web site. When the student logs in, they would be authenticated through LDAP to our server and then Zope would query the student database to find out what classes they're in. Then it would pull together all of the upcoming assignments for those classes and display them on the homepage. This is just one simple example. Image what other things could be done! I'm also interested in using XML to provide a layer (analogous to ODBC, I think) between the administrative software and Zope. I'm also part of the SEUL-EDU group (Simple End-User Linux), and one of the members of that group has done an amazing job creating an XML DTD for educational applications. It's called EDUML and you can read a description at http://roberts.vsb.bc.ca/zope/eduml) It also turns out that the author is using Zope on his Web site! (The site was unavailable for some reason this morning. It worked last night though, so check back if it doesn't work right away.) I realize that I've just scratched the surface here for the sake of brevity. I hope that some of you can get a feel for what I'm thinking about here. So what's next? * Is there sufficient interest to create a special interest group for Zope in education? The ZCommerce folks did this. * Would DC be interested in creating a special section of the Zope site for those interested in this area? I hope we can continue discussing this. There's too much potential here to ignore it. -Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson(a)visi.com | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/

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Welcome aboard!!
by Rob Page 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

Hello everybody! Please join me in welcoming Martijn Pieters to the Digital Creations team! Martijn, who hails from the Netherlands, is more of a Palm freak than Jim Fulton and I combined (!) and will be joining us on December 6, 1999. In addition to engineering amazing software, Martijn will be providing three levels of in-line skating training: o beginner, o intermediate, and o advanced to current and future Digital Creations team members. :^) Martijn can be reached at mj(a)digicool.com. Welcome Martijn! --Rob P.S. - For the non-Europeans out there, his name is pronounced something like "Mar-tine." -- Rob Page Phone: +1 540 371 6909 Digital Creations Fax: +1 540 371 1201

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RE: [Zope] How to get title of a DTML Document?
by Michel Pelletier 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Art Hampton [mailto:arth@pacsg.css.mot.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 5:38 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] How to get title of a DTML Document? > > > M. Adam Kendall wrote: > > > > On 23-Nov-1999 Art Hampton wrote: > > > Sorry if this is a basic newbie question, but I've sifted > through the > > > docs and haven't been able to find the answer. > > > > > > I've got a document that I include in my > standard_html_header. That > > > works fine. But I'd like to also use the DTML Document's > title in the > > > header. > > > >  > > That gets the title or id of index_html. I need the title of a > different document. <dtml-var document_title> Yes, it's undocumented. Sigh. There is is also a document_id. Confusingly, it works for both Methods and Documents. -Michel

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about the IMAPAdapter Product product
by al004151＠alumail.uji.es 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

The lines 106-108 of the file "IMAPAdapter.py" are: def addIMAPAdapter(self, title='', default_domain='', smtp_server='', smtp_port=25, imap_server='', imap_port=143, roles, REQUEST=None): the roles parameter has no default value while REQUEST has, this gives me an error. Shouldn't it be roles=''? And a question, the method validate begins: def validate(self, request, auth='', roles=None): """ """ if 'NotMail' not in roles: <--- Why these two lines? return None <--- Thanks for your time, David

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How do I make an external object a subclass of Persistence.Persistent?
by Andres Corrada 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

Hi, I'm following up on a tip by Michel Pelletier that I make an external object persistent in the Zope process by subclassing it from Persistence.Persistent. But lib/python/Persistence.py is essentially an empty file. What am I missing? ------------------------------------------------------ Andres Corrada-Emmanuel Email: andres(a)corrada.com Owner http://www.corrada.com/mamey Mamey Phone: (413) 587-9595 ------------------------------------------------------

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How do I connect to #zope on EFNET?
by Alwyn Schoeman 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

I'm trying to connect to EFNET, but it is closing the connection all the time [ERROR from irc.chat.org] : :Closing Link: alwyn[alwyns(a)196.34.63.75] irc.concentric.net (No authorization: -2) [11:06:47] [SOCKET ERROR]:Connection closed by remote host Help? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions

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searching dates in ZCatalog from external method
by Matthew Wilbert 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

I am trying to call the ZCatalog searchResults method in an external method, and I am not getting correct results, so would like to know if anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong. This works correctly: self.searchResults({'id' : '6','id_usage':'range:min'}) This doesn't (start is a DateTime field in the cataloged objects) self.searchResults({'start': DateTime('1999/01/01'),\ 'start_usage':'range:min'}) It returns the id's of all the objects in the catalog (which is wrong). Any ideas as to what have I screwed up? Thanks for any help, Matt Wilbert ______________________________________________________________________ Get Visto.com! Private groups, event calendars, email, and much more. Visto.com. Life on the Dot. Check it out @ http://www.visto.com/info

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windows / oracle
by Adam Gotheridge 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

How do I get DCOracle working on a windows machine? What other db options are there for the Windows release? Thanks

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DCOracle win32 problem
by Shalabh Chaturvedi 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

I can't compile the DCOracle extension on win32. In face I can't even produce the Makefile. This is what happens:- N:...>make -f makefile.pre.in boot PYTHON=python rm -f *.o *~ make: /bin/sh: Command not found make: [clean] Error 127 (ignored) rm -f *.a tags TAGS config.c Makefile.pre python sedscript make: /bin/sh: Command not found make: [clobber] Error 127 (ignored) rm -f *.so *.sl so_locations make: /bin/sh: Command not found make: [clobber] Error 127 (ignored) VERSION=`python -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]"`; \ installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`; \ exec_installdir=`python -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`; \ make -f ./Makefile.pre.in VPATH=. srcdir=. \ VERSION=$VERSION \ installdir=$installdir \ exec_installdir=$exec_installdir \ Makefile make: /bin/sh: Command not found make: *** [boot] Error 127 Isn't makefile.pre.in supposed to be 'platform independent' ? Why do I see /bin/sh and all the other unix stuff ? I apologize if this is the wrong list for this - please point me. Thanks, Shalabh

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The most stable version of Zope?
by Steen Suder 24 Nov '99

24 Nov '99

I'm running Zope 2.0.0 here on RedHat 6.0/Intel. My plan was to wait with upgrade to 2.1.0 Final, but now my Zope has lost the node in its tree that I was working on. Well, the node is there, but its empty and when I click it, right pane says: "Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. KeyError Sorry, a Zope error occurred." I have backups (as usually not tested ;-/), but if the ODB is beginning to corrupt I better do something soon. So now I want to upgrade to either 2.0.1 or a 2.1 beta. Which version should I go with? Secondary question: Is there a tool for straightening the ODB up again? -- Best regards / mvh., Steen Suder sysadm kollegie6400.dk OpenSource - Sign of the time

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