December 1999 - Zope

Calendar Tag 0.9.1
by al004151＠alumail.uji.es 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi, I've been working on the Ty Sarna's Calendar Tag, you can download the new version from: http://www.zope.org/Members/jdavid/Calendar Feedback is very welcomed!! David

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View a document directly after add?
by Jonathan Cheyne 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi all. I am hoping that users will upload their own contributions withuot having to come to terms with the management interface ... as such, is it possible to go directly to viewing a document once it's been added rather than the management interface for the folder in which it was added? I have been playing around with the syntax for response.redirect etc but have not hit upon the solution. Jonathan

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background picture
by Roland_Schopp＠t-online.de 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Dear Zopeistas, has anybody managed to get a background picture on his site that is served by zope ? I want a <body background=<dtml somewhat> >. My last try was to save the image as a simpe file and say <body background=<dtml var filename>> Then i got the data of the GIF-Image as Characters. Of course i have to tell the browser that there is an image to come. But how ??? The workaraound on another system was to serve the picture via Apache from the filesystem, but on my new system i don't want do setup Apache just for using a background picture. thanks in advance Roland Schopp Arachno GmbH

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Tree strangeness
by John Goerzen 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi, I am using a Tree tag with a leaves= statement. It seems to be working OK, but the expand all capability is not working. It expands the top-level items (those without leaves) but none of the lower level items are expanded! Ideas? -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen(a)complete.org | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The 181,416,817th prime number is 3,811,260,883.

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I'm having a problem with ./start of ZServer on my machine....
by Xeno Campanoli 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

The symptom is as follows: ------ 1999-12-23T19:41:32 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Thu Dec 23 11:41:32 1999 Unix socket: /root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var/pcgi.soc ------ 1999-12-23T19:41:32 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port 8099 Traceback (innermost last): File "/root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/z2.py", line 574, in ? pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var/Z2.pid' devil:~/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86# the latter indicated directory being in /root for the root user. As this is apparently supposed to work 'out of the box', I thought it would be worth emailing you first. My system is a Debian slink, and cksum gets the following: 1156543682 2384334 Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86.tgz Please advise. Thank you. Sincerely, Xeno

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * Amos Lattier has started a series at XML.com about XML and Zope. The first article is available. http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/12/zope/index.html * Beehive has translated additional Zope How-Tos into German. German speaking Zope users are welcome to contribute to the effort. http://www.zope.de/bibliothek/How-Tos/ http://www.zope.de * The new Zope Front Door has been installed. Comments to webmaster(a)zope.org are encouraged. http://www.zope.org * Lutz Ehrlich <Lutz.Ehrlich(a)EMBL-Heidelberg.de> has launched the German Python/Zope network. "It is meant to be a lightweight and efficient means to form a network of freelancers able to provide Python/Zope services in the German speaking part of the world." http://www.python-netzwerk.de * A mailing list has been set up to support the Zope Mozilla Initiative. It's address is zope-mozilla(a)zope.org. http://www.zope.org/Resources/Mozilla New Products * "4am" posted a bash script to automate generating distribution archives of Python Products. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/packProduct Updates * The Z SQL Methods User's Guide has been updated. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZSQL * "4am" has updated SiteAccess to work with Zope 2.1. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess Zope.org items * "limi" posted the 100th How-To, which is about using multiple-selection and selection properties. http://www.zope.org/Members/limi/multipleselection-howto * "dparker" submitted a tip for editing Zope resources with the editor of your choice under KDE, and suggests that the same technique may work for other environments. http://www.zope.org/Members/dparker/alternativeeditors * "sfs" has contributed a helpful document on forcing clients to use HTTPS when using the management interface. http://www.zope.org/Members/sfs/Apache/SSL/forcehttpsformanage Notable Discussions * chas <panda(a)skinnyhippo.com> started a discussion titled "Linux/Redhat advice : RPMs vs Src for Zope development ?" "chas" is new to Linux, coming from a FreeBSD background, and he in curious about the relative merits of installing from the sources versus installing with an RPM. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016006.html * Christopher Petrilli <petrilli(a)digicool.com> posted to zope-dev to let everyone know that Even Simpson's Python Methods have been rolled in to Zope, and are now committed to the CVS. Some discussion of Python Methods followed. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002735.html * Dave Parker <dparker(a)globalcrossing.com> complained that his namespace kept disappearing when he called a DTML Method from a DTML Method. Jim Fulton and others wrote in explaining what was happening, why it happened, and how to pass values to a DTML Method without losing your namespace. A lot of very useful information, sure to cause many a forehead-slap. Jim also mentions that you may not have to jump through this particular hoop too much longer. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002715.html * Andrew Hall <aah(a)impaq.net.au> has his FastCGI/Zope setup troubleshot by the mailing list. An error in the documentation (doc/WEBSERVER.txt) is pointed out! (Corrected in the CVS.) http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015882.html -- Mike Pelletier.

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Re: [Zope] Calendar Tag 0.9.1
by rgines＠purina.com 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

>I have worked extensively with this tag.. >Production site I designed is online and has this calendar of events >http://www.aley.net/Ar/events/ ... and a fine job you have done as well. >This is the source.. It has some arabic text (sorry) but it will help you >get the idea behind what I have setup.. Thank You!!! This is the first time that the tag has made sense to me. I'm now in the process of making dirivitaive works of ZCatalog and KMNetNews so that I can create a public updatable calendar.

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Two weeks Till Python Conference Early Bird Registration Deadline!
by Guido van Rossum 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

We know that the Python conference isn't until the next millennium. You have exactly two weeks left to register and qualify for the early bird registration. Since most of that time most people are taking off for the holidays, it's really NOW OR NEVER! If you haven't registered and paid by January 5, you will paying full price... So, be smart and register NOW. Also don't forget to book your hotel room by January 3. Some highlights from the conference program: - 8 tutorials on topics ranging from JPython to Fnorb; - a keynote by Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond; - another by Randy Pausch, father of the Alice Virtual Reality project; - a separate track for Zope developers and users; - live demonstrations of important Python applications; - refereed papers, and short talks on current topics; - a developers' day where the feature set of Python 2.0 is worked out. Our motto, due to Bruce Eckel, is: "Life's better without braces." Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000. Make the Python conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium! The early bird registration deadline is January 5. More info: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ The program is now complete with the titles of all presentations. There is still space in the demo session and in the short talks session. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Re: [Zope] background picture
by Maik Roeder 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

Hi ! > Dear Zopeistas, > > has anybody managed to get a background picture on his site that is served > by zope ? > > I want a <body background=<dtml somewhat> >. Try this with an image "somewhat": <body background="somewhat"> Also nice: <dtml-var "somewhat.tag(height=23,width=23,alt='Hello')"> Maik

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Virtual host
by Marco Beri 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

I'm sure: this is not a FAQ. Let's say I have two domains to serve on my server: www.pippo.it and www.pluto.it. www.pippo.it is a virtual host served by Apache on /var/www/pippo.it while www.pluto.it is a virtual host I want to serve by Zope ZServer. Using ProxyPass directive I managed to serve www.pluto.it/Zope on port 8080 but I wasn't able to serve directlty www.pluto.it. Any hints? Thanks. Marco Beri.

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