November 2000 - Zope

PTK won't let me add objects
by Paul Winkler 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Hi, I'm working on a site based on the PTK DemoPortal. PTK is a great product, so I was happy to see a new release announced recently and took the opportunity (yesterday) to update my PTK installation from CVS. Well, now the Zope management interface won't let me add anything inside the Portal except Document, Link, News Item, Portal File, Portal Folder, and Portal Image. I'm NOT talking about the Portal interface - just the plain old Zope "Available Objects" button. Was this done on purpose? If so, why on earth would you want to prevent anyone from adding so much as a humble DTML method?? We're not talking about the end-user interface here. For now I'm going to revert to an old version of PTK, bugfixes be damned. I can't get any work done in this version. -- ................. paul winkler .................. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. web page: http://www.slinkp.com A member of ARMS: http://www.reacharms.com

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How to create a run-time zclass instance?
by Dirksen 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

How to create a run-time zclass instance, which stays in the memory, not in the zodb? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/

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What is 'Experimental LoginManager support' in PTK?
by Dirksen 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

In the 2nd step of creating a portal site, there's a 'Database' option list. One can choose 'Zope Database' or 'Experimental LoginManager support'. If I pick the latter, I'll end up with such error: Error Type: NameError Error Value: Invalid/nonexistent ZClass 'MembershipZ/LoginMember' Does the 'experimental' mean 'unfunctional'? How can I make it work? Dirksen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/

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ZClass/DTML Document transparency
by Randall Kern 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Hi all, I have a folder (foo) which contains a set of DTML Documents, and instances of a ZClass. >From another DTML document, I enumerate the contents of this folder, using a DTML-IN tag: <dtml-in expr="bar.foo.objectValues()" sort="order"> ... </dtml-in> My problem is with ..., namely dealing with both DTML documents and ZClasses. In the case of DTML Documents, the following works fine: <dtml-var sequence-item> In the case of ZClasses, I have to use something like this: <dtml-with sequence-item> <dtml-var index_html> </dtml-with> So I'm using this: <dtml-if expr="_['sequence-var-meta_type'] == 'DTML Document'"> <dtml-var sequence-item> <dtml-else> <dtml-with sequence-item> <dtml-var index_html> </dtml-with> </dtml-if> But this is rather ugly, and it's the sort of thing one shouldn't have to do in an oo system. So, is there a better way? -Randy

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Re: [Zope] Permission problems...
by Dieter Maurer 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Curtis Maloney writes: > I really can't understand this... I am logged in as my normal Manager role > user, editing away on my site. In the management section, no problems... I > can edit, add and delete to my hearts content. > > However, when I try the normal view, one a certain page I get permission > problems... It won't let me log in with _any_ users, even tho my permissions > seem set correctly. > > The object in question is, in fact, standard_html_header, of all things. > With the way the objects are set up, it's only rendering the same objects as > from the previous page, with a little extra processing due to submitted form > values. This is definitely not enough information. Either your permissions are strange (you ruled this out) or "standard_html_header" contains something strange that maybe triggers a Zope bug (2.1.6. contained such bug, when you e.g. used 'ZopeFind' or 'ZopeFindAndApply'). We may help you, if you post your "standard_html_header". Dieter

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Version Lock/save/discard Problem
by J�lio Dinis Silva 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Hi, I created a version in my zope root in which I've been working for some days. I created some objects on my root folder when working on my version which caused root to became locked. Now I want to save/commit my version. I go to the save/discard form and the save form post looks to work okay, i.e, I have a undo log of this commit and If I try to save again Zope tells me there is nothing else to save in the current version. But... when I try to delete my version I get a VersionLockError, and my root folder is still being locked. Same goes to Discard, i.e, apparentely zope do the save/discard but the locked files/folders continues there. I've tryed with superuser, and even on the Control Panel Version manage, with no luck. I'm using zope222. I'm using latest release of ZEO. I do a pack to my Data.fs on a daily basis. Anyone had this problem, any help? Thanx, Júlio Dinis Silva _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: [Zope] Question about security
by Dieter Maurer 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

Joaldo Junior writes: > Does anyone can inform if is there any kind of function, > which a common user can change your password by the same way a superuser can > do in ACL_User? Look at the built-in Zope API reference: User object. The User object has methods to read and change the information associated with a user. These methods are (of cause) protected such that only users with high priviledges can execute them. You will need to set a proxy role for the DTML object that calls them, in order to allow less priviledged users to call them. Dieter

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Re: [Zope] how-to list all the zclasses constructors ?
by Dieter Maurer 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

Didier Georgieff writes: > I guess it should be simple to generate the list of constructors and > proposing the associated methods, but i just can't figure how to do that ;-< I answer with a general remark: Whenever you see that the Zope management interface does something you are interested in, you can learn how it is done by looking at the DTML source that built the respective management page. In your case, this is "OFS/main.dtml": <SELECT NAME=":method" ONCHANGE="location.href='&dtml-URL1;/'+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value"> <dtml-in filtered_meta_types mapping sort=name> <OPTION value="&dtml.url_quote-action;">&dtml-name; </dtml-in> </SELECT> "filtered_meta_types" is a list of registered meta type objects. A meta type object has attributes "name", the meta type, and "action", the associated constructor. Dieter

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Re: [Zope] How exactly do I restart zope?
by Dieter Maurer 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

NYNewMedia writes: > How exactly do I restart zope? Under Unix, "./stop; ./start" in the Zope installation directory. Under Windows: "Shutdown" from Zope's Control Panel (to stop Zope) "start" (in Zope's installation directory) to start Zope. There is a way to start Zope at NT service. I am not an expert for this. Look at the upcoming Zope book (http://www.zope.org/members/michel/ZB) (or something similar). Dieter

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Re: [Zope] RE : [Zope] NESTED IN STATEMENTS AND PASSING VARIABLES in DTML
by Dieter Maurer 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

Kelvin Cheong writes: > > <dtml-in "category_method(id='1')" size=100 start=query_start> > id=<dtml-var id>&seq=<dtml-var seq>&vid=<dtml-var vid> > > where can i find out more about these properties, i.e. the seq...vid... and > so on..? The argument to "dtml-in" is a sequence of objects. "dtml-in" iterates over the objects. In each iteration, "dtml-in" exports the current objects attributes into the namespace. Thus, "seq", "vid", ... are probably attributes of your objects. Dieter

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