January 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

RE: [Zope] Sophisticated Editing of Zope Objects
by Tres Seaver 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

"Brian K. Holdsworth" <bhold(a)awod.com> wrote: > > Dan, > > This was my basic approach as a Zope newbie: > > 1. Used HotMetal Pro 5.0 to "prototype" my site. This was essentialy to > create a template for the site with the graphics, navigation, and structure > that would be used throughout. The goal was to tweak the look and feel that > I wanted to capture. > > 2. Manually segmented my template into a set of DTML methods - like > standard_html_header, standard_html_footer, standard_menu, context_menu, > stylesheet, etc. This allows me to take advantage of the Zope acquisition > capability to enforce my sites structure on all the content that was yet to > be created. The goal was to understand and take advantage of Zope's > acquistion features and products. If you aren't making use of > acquisition, then you aren't making use of Zope. > > 3. Created a folder structure in Zope to represent the organization for my > content. > > 4. Began adding my content by creating DTML Documents in these folders. > > Here is the key fact - Once I got to step four, I really didn't need a > "sophisticated" HTML editor. Most of my content just requires HTML header > tags, <BR>'s, and <P>'s for the formatting. Acquisition does all the real > formatting magic and I can just concentrate on the actual text of my > content. For this reason, most any text editor is sufficient for my needs > at this point. It makes a lot of sense at this point to just use your > favorite text editor with an FTP capability to get at your DTML docs. > This is a very nice writeup -- please add it as a How-To on the Zope.org site! -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com

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Roxen
by Ruth Tredinnick 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

16/01/2000 19:21:50 can zope run on roxen?

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ZDP News
by Tom Deprez 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

Hi all, Weekly ZDP News at http://zdp.zope.org:8080/ZDP/news/ Regards, Tom

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FYI: PTK docs & mockups online
by Paul Everitt 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

Howdy all. The current work-in-progress for the PTK docs are available at: http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/index.html Notes: o If you have specific comments, please join the PTK mailing list and we'll discuss it there. o I'm still learning DocBook and XSL, so don't complain about the formatting. :^) o The docs are going to get a pretty big change when Mike Pelletier and I sync up tomorrow, as he did a lot at the end of the week. o The docs discuss some things that are anticipated for the PTK but won't be there until some time in February. o We'll be carving out a CVS area for all this stuff next week. Some questions for you folks: o Some of you are doing work that is related, such as Doug Hellmann's Chameleon (and obviously Butch and Kevin). I'd like to get us all working together on these ideas. o The "PTK Interface" section has some ideas in it that bear examination and discussion. I'm pretty excited by how much Mike has done, so things are looking pretty good! --Paul

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ZClass Confusion over object id
by Brian K. Holdsworth 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

I have embarked on my first effort to create a custom ZClass for a site I am building. It almost works! The problem has something to do with the way the object "id" gets created when I make an instance of my custom ZClass. I am using Zope 2.1.2 and my ZClass inherits from DTML Document. I upgraded to the latest version hoping it would fix the problem. It didn't, so I assume now that I am doing something wrong. Here is what I am using for my addForm method: <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Add Article</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000099" VLINK="#555555"> <H2>Add Article</H2> <form action="ArticleClass_add"><table> <tr><th>Id:</th> <td><input type=text name="id"></td> </tr> <tr><th>Title:</th> <td><input type=text name="title"></td> </tr> <tr><th>Author:</th> <td><input type=text name="author"></td> </tr> <tr><th>Summary:</th> <td><textarea name="synopisis" cols="40" rows="10"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr><td></td><td><input type=submit value=" Add "></td></tr> </table></form> </body></html> The title, author, and synopsis properties are added to my ZClass on a property sheet called "article_info". I include these lines in my add method so that the properties can be filled in at object creation time:    The basic problem is that when I create an instance, the "id" property ends up blank! I see the object in the manage GUI with its id, but when I try to access the "id" of the instance in DTML, I get a value of "<string>" instead of the id I assigned. The other properties, like title and author, get created correctly. The edit page for the new object instance (it is a sub-class of DTML Document) also displays a blank id. Any clues??? Brian Holdsworth

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New Tip added:Advanced ZClass Cataloging
by Markus Strickler 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

Ever wanted to search for a term in one of several properties of a ZClass, the tip at http://www.zope.org/Members/kusako/AdvancedCataloging tells you how. Markus

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re: [Zope] SQL Queries
by Giampiero Raffaini 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

16/01/2000 15:45:12 thanks again. in CF i used to be able to link each title to a dynamically generated page using the ID, like this: a href="newpage.cfm?#ID# so that each title would go to its specific page thanks to the ID. How do you do this in Zope? Cheers Original message from: schenck(a)ultra.posc.org >Giampiero, > >You can easily do that. Take a look at this code. It is a DTML Method, tableCount_html >which displays a page that allows a user to select a table name from a select list in a form. >The options are retrieved from a data base before the page is displayed: > ><dtml-var standard_html_header> ><form action="tableInstances" method="get"> ><h2 align="center"><dtml-var document_title></h2> ><hr> ><p><font size="+1">Enter query parameters:</font></p> ><table> ><tr><th>Entity name</th> > <td><SELECT NAME="entity_name" SIZE=1> ><dtml-in getTableNames> > <OPTION><dtml-var table_def_nm null=""></OPTION> ></dtml-in> ></SELECT> > </td></tr> ><tr><td colspan=2 align=center> ><input type="SUBMIT" name="SUBMIT" value="Submit Query"> ></td></tr> ></table> ></form> ><p> </p> ><dtml-var standard_html_footer> > >Here is the code for getTableNames, a Z SQL Method that uses the ODBC interface to >query an Oracle database for the possible list of tables to select from: > >select table_def_nm from table_def >order by 1 > >As you can see, when someone references tableCount_html the getTableNames method is >called without the user pressing any buttons. > >Dan Schenck >POSC >Houston, TX > >> ** Original Subject: [Zope] SQL Queries >> ** Original Sender: Giampiero Raffaini <giampiero(a)btinternet.com> >> ** Original Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:04:53 GMT > >> ** Original Message follows... > >> >> 16/01/2000 13:59:55 >> Hello there, >> I am new to zope and i find it great. I am still learning it and I have a few questions, but one >in particular; >> I used Coldfusion before and I was able to do this: >> I had a db with movies, with Title,director,year and so on. I could run a query looking for >Tilte and ID and then >> output the result on a line and make each of the Titles a dynamically generated link >(something like >> <a href="newpage.cfm?#ID#>#Title#</a> if you know what I mean). >> Now my question is: >> is it possible in Zope to run SQL queries without the need to actually click on a Submit >button? >> Cheers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope >> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >> (Related lists - >> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce >> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >> > > >>** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > >> > > >Dan R. Schenck mailto:schenck@posc.org >POSC http://www.posc.org >Suite 275 >10777 Westheimer >Houston, TX 77042 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope >** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >(Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > >

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re: [Zope] SQL Queries
by schenck＠ultra.posc.org 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

Giampiero, You can easily do that. Take a look at this code. It is a DTML Method, tableCount_html which displays a page that allows a user to select a table name from a select list in a form. The options are retrieved from a data base before the page is displayed: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <form action="tableInstances" method="get"> <h2 align="center"><dtml-var document_title></h2> <hr> <p><font size="+1">Enter query parameters:</font></p> <table> <tr><th>Entity name</th> <td><SELECT NAME="entity_name" SIZE=1> <dtml-in getTableNames> <OPTION><dtml-var table_def_nm null=""></OPTION> </dtml-in> </SELECT> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 align=center> <input type="SUBMIT" name="SUBMIT" value="Submit Query"> </td></tr> </table> </form> <p> </p> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> Here is the code for getTableNames, a Z SQL Method that uses the ODBC interface to query an Oracle database for the possible list of tables to select from: select table_def_nm from table_def order by 1 As you can see, when someone references tableCount_html the getTableNames method is called without the user pressing any buttons. Dan Schenck POSC Houston, TX > ** Original Subject: [Zope] SQL Queries > ** Original Sender: Giampiero Raffaini <giampiero(a)btinternet.com> > ** Original Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:04:53 GMT > ** Original Message follows... > > 16/01/2000 13:59:55 > Hello there, > I am new to zope and i find it great. I am still learning it and I have a few questions, but one in particular; > I used Coldfusion before and I was able to do this: > I had a db with movies, with Title,director,year and so on. I could run a query looking for Tilte and ID and then > output the result on a line and make each of the Titles a dynamically generated link (something like > <a href="newpage.cfm?#ID#>#Title#</a> if you know what I mean). > Now my question is: > is it possible in Zope to run SQL queries without the need to actually click on a Submit button? > Cheers > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** > Dan R. Schenck mailto:schenck@posc.org POSC http://www.posc.org Suite 275 10777 Westheimer Houston, TX 77042

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Re:[Zope] SQL Queries
by Giampiero Raffaini 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

16/01/2000 14:13:07 sorry, the robot cut my html i amneded my email: Original message from: Giampiero Raffaini >16/01/2000 13:59:55 >Hello there, >I am new to zope and i find it great. I am still learning it and I have a few questions, but one in particular; >I used Coldfusion before and I was able to do this: >I had a db with movies, with Title,director,year and so on. I could run a query looking for Tilte and ID and then >output the result on a line and make each of the Titles a dynamically generated link. Now my question is: >is it possible in Zope to run SQL queries without the need to actually click on a Submit button? >Cheers

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SQL Queries
by Giampiero Raffaini 16 Jan '00

16 Jan '00

16/01/2000 13:59:55 Hello there, I am new to zope and i find it great. I am still learning it and I have a few questions, but one in particular; I used Coldfusion before and I was able to do this: I had a db with movies, with Title,director,year and so on. I could run a query looking for Tilte and ID and then output the result on a line and make each of the Titles a dynamically generated link (something like <a href="newpage.cfm?#ID#>#Title#</a> if you know what I mean). Now my question is: is it possible in Zope to run SQL queries without the need to actually click on a Submit button? Cheers

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