May 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

FYI: Plans for Linux Expo
by Paul Everitt 02 May '99

02 May '99

Howdy. I've been holding off, hoping for a more formal statement of what's going on. Rather than wait any longer, I'll share some pieces of news with you. We are focusing on Linux Expo (May 18-22, www.linuxexpo.org) as a focus point for us where a number of things are going to come together: 1) I'll be giving a speech on the business track about Open Source and Venture Capital. The talk is currently (read: tentatively) scheduled for Saturday, May 22nd at 10:30. Other business track speeches that day are Sun, IBM, and Compaq, so they decided they needed me for a touch of class :^) I expect the topic of my talk will be quite interesting to a reasonable portion of the audience. 2) We are working with a professional PR firm (read: expensive) to coordinate a branding overhaul and PR push. We are positioning Zope as an application server focusing on community portals. The under-discussion brand of the company is "unleashing potential", which is based on Open Source, community portal, safely delegating control, and through-the-web everything. The PR firm will cultivate opinion makers in advance, schedule one-on-one interviews, and make appropriate press releases. 3) We'll have a booth there. 4) We are coordinating some software efforts to coincide with the show. For instance, beta1 of Zope2 will be ready by then, knock on wood. Also, some efforts to fill out our portal story (such as Membership, Catalog, etc.) will land. 5) I certainly expect the zope.org site and the digicool.com site to be overhauled by then. 6) Apparently we're on the PowerTools CD for RedHat 6.0 which I imagine will be launched during the show. As part of the PR push we need some of you out there to ride the wave with us and give us some case studies. This is both crucial for Zope and a great benefit to you! That's a brief version of events. --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul(a)digicool.com 540.371.6909

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Changing contents of a file
by Martin Dougiamas 02 May '99

02 May '99

OK, I'm going nuts trying to get this to work. What I want to do is to replace the contents of a HTML file with the contents of a variable I have, using DTML, in a similar way to that way the Zope manager Edit tab does it. Seems simple enough, but every combination I try seems to fail. The object reference is fairly minimalist which makes it difficult to work out how to use all these methods, and I can't find any DTML examples. Do I use manage_upload or manage_edit? How do I reference a file called "myfile.html"? eg: (my latest non-working code)    Cheers, Martin -- ### Martin Dougiamas -- Internet Agent is == i see ### Centre for Educational Advancement ### http://cea.curtin.edu/staff/martin

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FYI: Zope mentioned in InfoWorld
by Paul Everitt 01 May '99

01 May '99

Howdy. The intrepid Amos Latteier noticed that Zope was mentioned at: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990430.icglyph.htm It's basically a WebDAV article focused on IIS and a company called Glyhpica. The latter makes a portal product called PortalWare. If you want to see what our portal toolkit looks like, take a look at their stuff. Of course, PortalWare costs $72k, but as Hadar mentioned, it's nice to have a company that we can point at and say, "It's like that." I can usually tell when we are mentioned in InfoWorld. Our hit rate jumped from 12k effective one day to 23k the next. :^) Also, there is a new case study online for the great folks at Hiperlógica and "IDG Now!". Hopefully we can get some more online?? --Paul

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Form to remove files
by Sture Lygren 01 May '99

01 May '99

Hi! Hope someone can help me with this one: I want to make a form that can be used to remove files from several folders. I've made it so that my form displays the different folders and the files contained in them. Each file has a checkbox to it, and the plan was that I could choose the files to be deleted by checking out the correct checkboxes. But - now I'm stuck here - of course I need to pass the containing folders for the files to a delete method - how can this be done? Once more - how can I get both folder-ids and file-ids be submitted from the form below? <FORM ACTION="slett_dok" METHOD="POST">  <img src="" width="15" height="15"> <BR>  &nbsp&nbsp<img src="" width="15" height="15">  &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="file_list" VALUE=""><BR>   <BR> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Remove files"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Cancel"> </FORM> If it's not possible then - I can submit on the selected file-ids to an external method - no problem. But within this external method I would need to parse the whole hierarchy of folders/files and check if the files have same ids as the ones in the submitted list - if equal then the file shoul be deleted. How can this be done? Any help is much appreciated! Sture Lygren

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RE: [Zope] Zope and Python 1.5.2
by Michel Pelletier 01 May '99

01 May '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: .Oliver_Thuns. [mailto:oliver.thuns@gmx.de] > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 4:57 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Zope and Python 1.5.2 > > > Hi! > > Will Zope 1.11pre1 compatible with Pyhton 1.5.2? What glaring incompatibilities it does have are trivial, however we don't have the time or resources right now to do a full study before the Linux Expo. FYI, all current testing (meaning what's in CVS, aka 1.11) is done against 1.5.1. We *will* be making the transition to 1.5.2 over the next couple months when we can make a full resource evaluation of the issues involved. Considering the size of Zope, there are many things to check. It would be helpful if we had the full power of the Zope community to help us for this rather large but not to technically complicated task. We have allready recieved a couple of 1.5.2 related bugs in the collector, but your message makes it sound like you've found a few. On Monday, I will add a 1.5.2 catagory to the Collector so that community members can report bugs specific to the 1.5.2 transition. Please report *all* bugs that you find (please check the identical situation against 1.5.1 so that we can be sure it's a 1.5.2 bug) and we will fix them before release 2.0. For now however, 1.11 releases will be Python 1.5.1 compatable only. As allways, patches are very welcome. ;) -Michel > -- > I'm busily ignoring some thousand of implications I have > determined to be irrelevant. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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authentication problem
by Khai Huynh 01 May '99

01 May '99

hello everyone, i'm trying to try out zope's file permission and authentication on different users. i think i got the roles and users to set for each file correctly under zope manager but when i try to do "/manage" on a specific file, netscape ask me for username/password. i entered it in, but i couldn't get netscape to authenticate for that user. i added that username/passwd to the access file and still couldn't get netscape to authenticate. how do i get netscape to authenticate a different userser besides the "manager" account? thanks khai btw, i'm running zope under win95 with zope's http server

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