February 2000 - Zope

Re: [Zope] Zope
by rgines＠purina.com 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Pedro, might make a couple of suggestions. Most of your questions seem to be of a nature of getting started with specific segments or products within Zope. When I began my quest for the Zen of Zope, I went down the following path. 1) Try to read the product docs (realizing that not all contributed products have it) 2) Search through the How-Tos to see of there are examples (of which there are MANY) 3) Going to the E-Mail Archives to make sure that I was not having trouble with something that had been covered 45 times before in the list. 4) Used what (in many cases was very little) information that I had found to struggle through my problem at hand. The best way to learn something for good is to have to struggle through it. 5) Only after I felt that I had exhausted all my options would I ask a question. And when I asked a question I made sure that it was specific and to the point. For example instead of asking 'How do I change a tire?" (Which I would have had to ask prior to step 1 above) I would be informed of the situation and be able to ask, "How much torque should I use when tightening the nuts in a replaced tire?" 6) And finally, when I have it all figured out, if it is something that I think would be of value to the group that had assisted me, I would try to toss my knowledge back into the community so that the next person who searched the mail list archive would be able to move along the path of Zope enlightenment as I have. And finally through all of this realize that no one is getting paid to live on this mail list. Any responses are from the goodness of peoples hearts. We are more than willing to help each other when someone is stuck on an issues that someone else has solved; but no one is creating my site for me and I don't expect anyone else be building my site. So with that in mind..... >Is there anyone that could tell me how to work with the Tiny Tables.? This is like asking, how do you create a database? We need specific issues to address. >I need this because I have a form and I will use the Tiny Tables to save the >information that I will send throught the form. >This is urgent, can anyone tell me how this Tiny works!!!!?? Search the archive for Tiny Tables. There are TONs of hits, many with examples to get you started. >thanks, send your answers to: psilva(a)ruido-visual.pt To be blunt, this is rude. If you are going to ask a public question, expect a public answer. If you are too busy to keep up with the list, then you can also expect the list contributors to be way to busy to reply to your message. Pedro, sorry if this was somewhat terse, but you have posted several messages with this tone and scope. Since you were not seeming to pick up how the list works. For everyone else, sorry if you listened to my soapbox. It was my first on this list and hopefully my last <wink>. >Pedro

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Re: [ZGotW] Issue #4 (Closed) - but raising new questions ....
by Tres Seaver 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

rgines(a)purina.com wrote: > > As this list is good at doing, answering one question raises 47 others. > > Here is a thought provoking question. I'm curious as to what the group > think in this list would come up with. > > Here's the requirements in bullet for (for ease of reading and commenting). > > 1) Client wants to be able o publish to the web AND paper (please notice > this is a 'client' request no mine <g>) > > 2) The source of the document must be able to be maintained in an > application that is well known within the client organization ... hmmm ... > maybe 'Word'!? <mute on> grumble choke cough etc. etc. <mute off> > > 3) Client wants all documentation to be able to fit within the existing > look and feel for the site etc. etc > > 4) Client wants this task automated to the point where the ZGotW does not > need to be called to handle. > > ZGotW Issue #4 brought up some decent ideas that would take care of pieces > of this. > > I've got an idea, but although I know networking very well, am currently > rising up the ranks of Zen Zope, and have a decent understanding of the > inner workings of the HTML inner-workings ... alas <shame mode on> I am not > very good at all with Python <shame mode off>. > > Here's the thought provoking question .... > > How difficult would it be to allow a user to upload an HTML file created > from MS-Word (or some other tool which created HTML> either through a Zope > form or WebDav, but have the file immediately upon hitting the save button, > be parsed by a Python snippet which would remove the opening and closing > HTML strings (which are covered by our standard_html_header and > standard_html_footer methods). This should be able to handle the best of > both worlds. > > Unfortunately, I do not know enough Python at this time to dive into this. > I'm curious to hear if someone thinks that this is doable or if I am > totally off my rocker ... (of course it is possible that both are true). > > I look forward to your comments. First, I have added your note as an "after-market" reply to the ZGotW#4. Second, there is a command-line utility (loadsite.py, in the $ZOPE_HOME/utilities directory) which already does the stripping you talk about when loading HTML files into Zope from the local file system. Extracting that code for use in a PythonMethod should be very straightforward. This technique should work reasonably well for "one-way" migration (moving from Word to Zope), but will be somewhat problematic trying to "round-trip", I think (Word may get confused trying to open/browse/edit/save the document once it is in Zope). Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com

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Re: Re: [Zope] WorldPilot Calendar function error
by WorldPilot Helpers 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

> At 9:57 pm -0600 17/2/00, Jack Ungerleider wrote: > >First off let me say that WorldPilot its slick. I have been banging > >on it for a > >while and I can't seem to get around the following problem. Whenever I add > >an event to the calendar I get the error message and traceback shown below. > > > >I have tried a variety of combinations. This particular instance was with no > >adjustments to the date-time defaults. As far as I can tell its > >croaking on the > >redisplay. > > > >Ryan are you out there? Any suggestions? Anyone else on the list used > >WorldPilot's calendar without a problem? > > > >TIA for any suggestions. > > > > Worldpilot....tres cool. > bonjour :-) > But, anyone got a fix for this? (yeah I know, softwares been out for > hours and *already* I'm complaining!). > Thing is, I've got one of our Perl-heads here wetting himself over > this (shared calendar, IMAP mail) and I want to keep the pressure up! > :) Let me know what's in /var/spool/worldpilot/storage/<user>/Events and we'll get the original problem fixed :-) The quick solution to the problem is to remove the /var/spool/worldpilot/storage/<user>/Events folder, shut down Zope, restart and relog onto WorldPilot. The Events folder and contents will be recreated (empty). I assume this helps, at least I haven't received negative feedback yet. Cheers, Ryan > > In the past we have tried getting a Netscape Calendar Server up and > running to solve our shared calendar situations - people, don't go > there, it is, as they say, a mountain of pain! :( > > tone. > ------ > Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project > http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ > The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 > Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ) > > --------------------------------------------------- WorldPilot - Get Synced - http://www.worldpilot.org The Open Source Personal Information Manager Server Powered by Python and Zope - http://www.zope.org

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Forcing
by Pedro Silva 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Hi, I have a form with manu fields. How can I make that the name field just can take letters.? Example: Name: can just have a name with letters Address: can receive letter and numbers Phone: just numbers Can anyone tell me how to do this in the dtml-method that will verify the values of the fields? Thanks. This is kind fo urgent!!!! Pedro

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HTML filtering
by Alexander Limi 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Zopistas, I've run into a little something that I thought might be interesting. I run a site that accepts input from users in textboxes, and renders them afterwards on the public pages. The problem is, I want to filter out any HTML-tags in the textboxes, so users can't include their own html on my page. FOr example they shouldn't be able to insert <img> tags on the page. I first thougt that if I rendered the text as structured text, maybe those nasty HTML tidbits would disappear, but they didn't. So my question is twofold: 1. Is there a way of formatting the text (except <pre>, which is a bit crude :), so the HTML gets filtered out? 2. If not, would this maybe be a useful addition to the next version of Zope? Something á la "<dtml-var textentry fmt=filteredtext>"? Maybe to have different levels of filtering, e.g. to allow tags like <p> and <li> but disallow all the other tags. This is a must-have feature when you have users you do not trust 100%, and so it should be a part of Zope, IMNSHO. Alexander.

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Zope
by Pedro Silva 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Hi, How can I work with Tiny Tables? Send information to them? Thanks, send your answers to: psilva(a)ruido-visual.pt Pedro

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Upcoming Zope Training
by Rob Page 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Hello everyone: Digital Creations is pleased to announce the next public Zope course which will begin on 3/27/2000 in Herndon, VA. Herndon, VA is adjacent to Dulles airport and approximately 25 minutes west of Washington, DC. Details on the training are available at: http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/Training As a special incentive to early registrants, the first five (5) pre-paid registrants may attend the fourth (Advanced) training day at no extra charge. Please direct your comments and/or questions about this and future training venues to mailto:training@digicool.com Regards, --Rob Page -- Rob Page V: 540.371.6909 Digital Creations, Inc. F: 703.995.0412 -- ... The Leader in Open Source Web Development ... ... Don't miss Zope! http://www.zope.org ...

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Just wanted to say howdy!
by John Hebert 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Howdy everybody! Just joined the list this morning. I recently started working for a web app dev firm and began to see how creating objects that the designers could drop in would speed up devel. We are currently developing in PHP3 but we are beginning to evaluate Zope and plan to use it internally with task and project management (Xen!), with the idea of eventually doing a lot of solution development in Zope. Will post more as we evolve. John Hebert Geeky Programmer Type http://www.fbgc.com

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zope on shared disk
by Jerry Spicklemire 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

Another approach to spreading Zope resources across multiple machines is to divide entire high level folders (branches) so that each has a dedicated processor, RAM, etc. Then only the "topmost" common folder(s) need to be replicated. Of course you'll need to come up with an effective means of testing on a development system, and syncing after updates. No, it's not as clean as ZEO or a shared data.fs, but it may help solve the load problem, for awhile at least.

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(no subject)
by Alessandra Pessolano 18 Feb '00

18 Feb '00

I have a Zsql Method with argument (for example) "DIS06_UTENTE" and the query template is the following; select * from DIS06 where <dtml-sqltest DIS06_UTENTE type=string> I want to insert my input data with the small letters and read it in the query template with the capital letters. What can I do? Thanks in advance for Your help

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