September 2000 - Zope

Data.fs
by Tom Deprez 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Problem solved. Somebody installed a new version of ZNolkWizard product, which I wasn't aware of. It looks like this new version gives some problems with Interbase. Q: Since ZNolkWizard merely creates pages, how come then, that when you import a piece of Zope into Zope which doesn't has ZNolkWizard, Zope complains about not having ZNolkWizard installed? Why does Zope still needs this reference to ZNolkWizard? ZNolkWizard created some stuff, but isn't there anymore. Tom.

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Using ZPublisher separately
by Oleg Broytmann 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hello! Can anyone give me an advice on how to use ZPublisher with CGI? We in Interenet department of our company developed publication (conent management) system based on Python CGIs, ZTemplates and MySQL. This is actually second system we've developed, and it is big step forward. But there is a problem - the system is a bit too generic. When I edit an object through the web the handler puts all data from a form into the object as strings, where I want integers, dates etc. I want to use ZPublisher's ability to convert name hints (<input name="visible:int">) into python types. Can I do that in pure CGI using ZPublisher? How? Thanks in advance. Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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String problem with structured text
by Stephen Simmons 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hi, I am having a number of problems in a Python product displaying a property 'description' as structured text. 'description' is: Test structured text Link to the "Zope website":http://www.zope.org - Dot point If I update 'description' from my manage_editForm (which does self.description = description), <dtml-var description fmt="structured-text"> gets rendered in HTML as: <p>Test structured text Link to the <a href="http://www.zope.org">Zope website</a> - Dot point</p> The hyperlink has been rendered properly but the heading and dot point haven't. If I update 'description' from the properties page of the management interface, <dtml-var description fmt="structured-text"> looks like: <h3>Test structured text</h3> <p> Link to the <a href="http://www.zope.org">Zope website</a></p> <ul><li><p>Dot point</p> </li></ul> which is exactly what it should be. Any ideas what is going on here? Background information: - Using a clean installation of Zope 2.2.0. - My Python product inherits from Folder and has properties 'title' and 'description'. These are made available via the Properties page using: _properties=({'id':'title', 'type':'string', 'mode':'w'}, {'id':'description', 'type':'text', 'mode':'w'}, ) - The manage_edit() method is: def manage_edit(self, title, description, REQUEST=None): "Edits the AdminFolder's characteristics" self.title = title self.description = description if REQUEST is not None: return MessageDialog( title='Edited', message='<strong>%s</strong> has been edited.' % self.id, action ='manage_main', ) Any suggestions gratefully accepted! Stephen _______________________________ Stephen Simmons HealthArena B.V. phone +31 20 486 0555 mobile +31 6 1505 3086 stephen.simmons(a)healtharena.net

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Folderish DTML Document
by Andy McKay 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Am I totally off my head or is it possible to make a Folderish DTML Document. I had a thread on zope-dev got no response. I know Chris Withers thinks every object is a folderish one, but Im talking about using PropertyManager, ObjectManager and DTMLMethod all on one object. The main problem being absolute_url on the object seems to be broken. -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState.

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How-to trap login error ?
by William JOYE 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hello, Some pages of my zope project are protected by acl_users. I would like to redirect the wrong login to another page. How to do that ? Do I need another product ? I'm using Zope 2.1.6. Is it possible to do that with the standard_error_message ? ATON Belgium Avenue Reine Astrid, 7 B-1440 Wauthier Braine Tél: +32(2)366.25.08 Fax: +32(2)366.25.14

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Re: [Zope] Mutiple images don't always show up
by Hung Jung Lu 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

It kind of make me feel better to know other people have observed the same problem. I found the following message in the mailing list by Pierre-Julien Grizel around 09/04/2000, with title: [Zope] Images slow rendering problem http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/242bb7cc2b2c343d802568… So, it does seem that Zope 2.1.6 has some problems handling multiple images. The problem seems to happen at least with Unix flavor OS (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD,) and seems to be browser-independent (Netscape and IE alike). I don't think it's the If-Modified-Since problem, since I have applied the patch in http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/1388/view and it did not make a difference. regards, Hung Jung PS- correction: in my previous message, where I said Zope 2.1.x, should have been 2.2.x. --- In zope(a)egroups.com, "Hung Jung Lu" <hungjunglu@h...> wrote: >Hi, > >I have observed that in some Zope installations (I am using Zope 2.1.6 >through PCGI on Linux, my browser is Internet Explorer 5.5), if I have more >than 4 or 5 images (currently I have one page with 12 GIF images), >sometimes not all the pictures show up. If I reload the page, the problem >is often fixed. > >I have seen similar situations both with static images and dynamic images >(images generated by Python programs.) I am not sure whether the problem is >in the browser, in the Zope server, or in my ISP. > >Has anyone seen something similar? > >regards, > >Hung Jung > >------------------------- > >PS- related to this, I also know that for Zope 2.1.x there is some thread >competing write problem: when two threads (from different browser windows) >compete in writing, one browser window does not receive any response. I >know Zope is supposed to abort one of the threads and restart it, and >matter of fact I do see that happen when I insert print statements. But >it's just strange that the browser window does not display anything. This >problem reportedly happens with Zope 2.1.6 and 2.1.x, both on Linux and >Windows, with IE5 and Netscape browsers alike. This could be a different >problem, though. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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HTML Widgets, In-place editing in Zope
by Phill Hugo 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hi All, We've been working on this for a few days now and I think its about time it was uncovered. If you try these two URLs in Mozilla or IE, you'll see what it does. It works in Netscape 4 but doesn't do the stylesheet magic to the form which looks less impressive. www.opencookie.org/widgets/index_html www.opencookie.org/widgets/index_html?editmode=1 widgets is an external method which will be on Zope.org next week if all goes well. Have fun. Phill Hugo Fortune Cookie (UK) Ltd. Its nice in here

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Zope-2.2.0: ZSQL problem
by a.wacknitz＠francotyp.com 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hi all, after upgrading from Zope-2.1.5 to Zope-2.2.0 (Windows) I have some problems with ZSQL-methods: <dtml-sqlvar AUTHENTICATED_USER> gives an error: Missing input variable, AUTHENTICATED_USER It used to work properly in 2.1.x. Is this already fixed in Zope-2.2.2 or is there any workaround for this? Regards, Andreas ********************************************************************** This email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co.

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Data.fs problem!!!
by Tom Deprez 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hi, I've some problems with my Zope database! I don't know what I've done wrong, but the only thing I did was installing the beta of MP. After the installation everything was still normal. Then I wanted to shutdown Zope and restard it in debug mode. Restarting in debug gave an error, but zope restarted. After this strange things happened : eg. I've a folder QC in which another folder Mammo is. Looking on the left panel (thus the Zope tree). I see QC but no subfolder Mammo. However, if I look into the folder of QC then Mammo folder is still their, although clicking on it gives the error that the Zope resource can't be found. Ok. Lucky I had a backup of QC.zexp. Unfortunately importing this file results in the same problem. I also moved the data.fs file and all the other things to another place and Zope created a new Data.fs file. I also removed the beta of MP and installed the old MP. To no offence, it still give this strange error. Now, I'm sure my exported file is not corrupt, but how can I install it so that it works! Important, because this was a service being used and I don't like to write it again. Thanks for any advice. Tom.

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Single html checkbox as list?
by clamor＠fafalter.de 25 Sep '00

25 Sep '00

Hi, since I didn't find anything on that topic, the solution might be obvious but I ran into the following problem: I have a html form with several checkboxes. If one checkbox is selected, the variable containing the result is represented by a string, if two or more checkboxes are selected the variable is represented by a list. Is there a way to force the variable to be a list, even if only one checkbox is selected? greetings clamor

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