July 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

RE: [Zope] tag suggestions: format tag
by Jeffrey Shell 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

>  > > would be equivalent to > > Hello world > > And > >  You mean, *just* like the #var tag ? :) > would be equivalent to > >  I think a block-level flavor of #var (#block) may be interesting. WebObjects has this as a bonus luxury. .jPS

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RE: [Zope] tag suggestions: format tag
by Jeffrey Shell 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

>  > *Item 1 > *Item 2 >  > > or if I want to plain text (and not have DTML processed) I > could do the > following > >  > >  > >  > > Good idea or not? Decent idea. I would suggest the tag be named "block" and have format be one of the parameters. > My rationale is as follows. > 1. I want to be able to add documents in various formats. The > format is > fixed at creation time. I don't want to have to tell zope how > to render > something everytime it is to be rendered. A structured text > document is a > structured text document. An alternative way of doing this is to have > another property of a document specifying how it is to rendered. We've built some ZClasses that do this. I think some of them are part of the PTK (Portal ToolKit). In essence, they have a "Contents" view (tab) with a big text area for content, and an property for format with the options of "Plain Text", "Structured Text", and "HTML". Then there's a "Format" view which is actually a document template that looks like the following:     <PRE></PRE>     > 2. How do I display DTML syntax in a DTML document? It's been a while since I've done this. I think it's generally been done by uploading a DTML source file as a File object and referencing it (using html_quote on the #var tag). There may be a newer way around this. .jPS

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RE: [Zope] tag suggestions: format tag
by Alexander Staubo 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

I think it's a good suggestion, but it'd be neat if the tag could accept an inline expression. Something like:  would be equivalent to Hello world And  would be equivalent to  Comments? Regardless of the exact syntax, I think we're on the lead of an important feature currently missing in Zope. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ >-----Original Message----- >From: Jay, Dylan [mailto:djay@lucent.com] >Sent: 23. juli 1999 05:28 >To: 'zope(a)zope.org' >Subject: [Zope] tag suggestions: format tag > > >Along the same lines as , >I propose the ability to do that at definition time instead of >when you call >the document. >Lets say I want a section of Structured text in DTML document >I could do the >following > > >*Item 1 >*Item 2 > > >or if I want to plain text (and not have DTML processed) I could do the >following > > > > > > > >Good idea or not? > >My rationale is as follows. >1. I want to be able to add documents in various formats. The format is >fixed at creation time. I don't want to have to tell zope how to render >something everytime it is to be rendered. A structured text >document is a >structured text document. An alternative way of doing this is to have >another property of a document specifying how it is to rendered. >2. How do I display DTML syntax in a DTML document? > > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > >(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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RE: [Zope] include only permission?
by Rob Page 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

> I would like to keep certain documents in a sub folder > /include, but for > various reasons it's not intended that things in include should be > directly viewable. Is there a combination of permissions which allows > /include/xxxx to be included in other documents, but not viewed? > > Ideally the include folder should be invisible, but usable by dtml > methods. You could restrict all access to these objects to a role called, say, ViewIncludes Then you could give ALL of the objects that want to refer to/render them the Proxy Role of ViewIncludes Just an idea. --Rob

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RE: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: XMLDocument 1.0a1
by Rob Page 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

> Now all we need is an XSL processor so we can transform XML > documents to > HTML etc. on the fly. Anybody know of a Python implementation > of such a > gizmo? Check 4XSL from FourThough, LLC: http://www.fourthought.com/4Web/index.html --Rob

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Synchronising a navigation tree
by Robert Leftwich 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

I need to be able to synchronise a tree tag based navigation tree of unlimited depth in one frame with the contents of another frame that provides its own navigation (i.e. hyper links). The problem basically boils down to being able to specify what node/s in a tree are open, either adding to or overriding the currently open nodes. Has anyone tackled this problem and if so what technique did you use ? TIA Robert Leftwich

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include only permission?
by Robin Becker 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

I would like to keep certain documents in a sub folder /include, but for various reasons it's not intended that things in include should be directly viewable. Is there a combination of permissions which allows /include/xxxx to be included in other documents, but not viewed? Ideally the include folder should be invisible, but usable by dtml methods. -- Robin Becker

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How to reference the list checkbox thru
by HCSCCS＠prudential.com.my 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

Thanks again. I got you now. But how can I refer the checkbox via Javascript. For example, the name of the checkbox is 'pno:list'. I got error when refering to it's propoties:- document.myForm.pno[count].value or document.myForm.pno:list[count].value or document.myForm.pno[count]:list.value Is that possible?? ---------- From: "Phillip J. Eby" Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 7:20 AM To: Paul Chung Chee Soong; zope Subject: RE: [Zope] Bulk insert in Zope's ZPyGres Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Loop-Detect: 1 At 10:37 AM 7/22/99 +0000, Paul Chung Chee Soong wrote: >Thanks. But how do use insert statements thru Z SQL Mtehod submitting it >again? We will need to submit the web page a lot of times to get the >variables across, wouldn't we? How do we address this problem ? As I said before, just make the checkbox field a :list field, and have your SQL method do an  block that loops over it to create a series of INSERT statements in one batch. For example, if your checkbox field is called "item_to_borrow:list". Your SQL method would look something like:  INSERT INTO my_table (the_item) VALUES ()  Obviously, you would need to change this to suit the values you actually need to insert. The above will generate a series of INSERT statements in a single batch, one for each checked item. When the SQL method runs, it will send all the INSERT's to the database at once.

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RE: [Zope] How to reference the list checkbox thru
by Rob Page 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

> Thanks again. I got you now. But how can I refer the checkbox via > Javascript. For example, the name of the checkbox is > 'pno:list'. I got > error when refering to it's propoties:- > document.myForm.pno[count].value or > document.myForm.pno:list[count].value or > document.myForm.pno[count]:list.value > Is that possible?? This is highly possible :^) I doubt JavaScript was intended to use special characters in its variable names. You might be in between the proverbial rock and hard place... --Rob

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RE: [Zope] ZClasses and default documents, and COM objects.
by Rob Page 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

> > > > On the subject of COM, I'm in the final stages of creating a product to > > convert Word Documents to HTML on the fly, taking the style sheet built into > > the document and creating an HTML4/CSS rendition of it. > > > > I know that there are Word->HTML converters around, but we have an awful lot > > of documents that need doing, and don't really want to convert them if > > no-ones going to look at them, this way since they get converted on the fly > > (and then cached and only reconverted if the original changes), only the > > documents that need converting get done. > > > > If anyone else has an interest in this then let me know. I am -- I think this would be TOTALLY awesome! So, when can we see it! :^) -Rob

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