October 2001 - Zope - Zope lists

Re: [ZWeb] Re: [Zope] Come kick some tires, at new.zope.org
by Joachim Werner 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi! > Which is why we should be sending those people to zope.com (the salesmanship > site) or to a beauty contest site. Zope.org is a Developer site. I would > not disagree at all that there ought to be beauty sites; including zope > oriented beauty sites. (Which is why I proposed a "Am I Hot" series of > links.) > I certainly think it appropriate that zope.org have a disclaimer at the > bottom of the page stating that: "This site is oriented towards making the > experience as speedy and useful as possible for developers and daily users. > To that end, it has a deliberatly stripped-down design. Our shameless > commerce division is at http://www.zope.com. ____ and ____ are some > examples of designer oriented zope sites." This is the first time I hear the statement "Zope.org is a developer site". dev.zope.org is, for sure. But zope.org has always been THE zope site for everybody from suits seeking for Zope basic information (e.g. the case studies) to the more technically oriented. And even technically oriented people will appreciate good design. It's not only VISUAL design I am talking about, but also the design of the navigation (i.e. the information architecture), so that it becomes as easy as possible to find stuff. As somebody has pointed out, the design draft for EuroZope.org is no more than 30 KB in size, that's roughly the same as zope.org's front page has now. You can also use even less graphics, like in the nice examples of metazope and zopezen (if you don't count the icons there). With most people having rather fast connections and graphics being cached by the browser anyway, I can't accept having a simple site layout to be the most important design goal of a site of the importance of zope.org. BTW: If you want it fast and plain, use w3m or lynx, and all the graphics are gone (I guess you could still switch graphics off in IE, too)... Another point to make here: Redirecting the non-developers to zope.com is certainly no solution for ALL problems. To some extent, we (the other Zope services providers) compete with Zope Corporation or at least add services Zope Corp. does not offer. And while we all accept that Zope Corp. should get the main credits for Zope, we wouldn't want Zope to be identified with Zope Corporation ONLY. I think I am totally in synch with Zope Corp. here. They just cannot (right now) provide the full range of Zope-related services. Some of the other Zope businesses add Zope hosting to the portfolio, others offer services in Europe, Asia, South America, or Australia , where Zope Corporation is not locally available. So if we talk about Zope as a whole, there's no doubt that zope.org is the site. Last not least: As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago on ZopeZen or ZopeNewbies (I don't remember), the thing we should be heading at is a family of cross-syndicated Zope sites, so that everybody can choose their favourite editor and site design (so sombody could do a "no-graphics" Zope site, let's call it "ZLynx" or so), but the basic information (news, documentation, ...) is shared between the sites. This would be an even better showcase for Zope than just one zope.org site. Cheers Joachim

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RE: [Zope] TinyTable Querying Question
by abg＠comco-inc.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Thanks! Worked like a charm. In addition to not converting the variable I was looking for to an integer, I didn't have the TinyTable column defined as :int, so I was doubly screwed. Whoops. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Meilicke, Scott Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:26 PM To: Aaron Gillette; zope(a)zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] TinyTable Querying Question Is it treating your variable as a string vs. a number? If so, you can use <dtml-var expr="_.string.atoi(myVariable)"> to convert from a string to a number. Scott -----Original Message----- From: abg(a)comco-inc.com [mailto:abg@comco-inc.com] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:23 PM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] TinyTable Querying Question Hi, I am quite sure that I'm missing something obvious, but I'm absolutely pulling my hair out. I am trying to pull data out of a TinyTable based on a variable. Here's an example: <dtml-in "TinyTable(row_id= myVariable)"> <dtml-var col_1> </dtml-in> If I replace myVariable with a literal, like '1', it works (naturally). What am I overlooking? Thanks in advance, Aaron Gillette _______________________________________________ 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 ) _______________________________________________ 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] Modification Reminder
by abg＠comco-inc.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Sorry... replied to the wrong message. Long day. -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Gillette Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:59 PM To: 'zope(a)zope.org' Subject: RE: [Zope] Modification Reminder Thanks! Worked like a charm. In addition to not converting the variable I was looking for to an integer, I didn't have the TinyTable column defined as :int, so I was doubly screwed. Whoops. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jim Washington Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:28 PM To: Niclas Kuehne Cc: Zope Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Zope] Modification Reminder Niclas Kuehne wrote: >I am working on a project that requires people to update their >(HTML-)documents about once every 6 month. Is there a Zope "plug-in" of any >kind that gives me the opportunity to check all the files in a specific >folder and it's subfolders for the modification time and send an email to >the user who uploaded/created it if the modification date lies back more >than 6 month? Has anyone any experiences with a problem like this and could >offer a solution? Thank you very much for any help. > Here's part of it, which may be called from any folderish object: PythonScript named last_modification_date(mod_date=None) if mod_date is None: mod_date = context.bobobase_modification_time() newlist = context.objectValues() if len(newlist) > 0: for k in newlist: z = k.bobobase_modification_time() if z > mod_date: mod_date = z if k.isPrincipiaFolderish: z = k.last_modification_date(mod_date = mod_date) if z > mod_date: mod_date = z else: t = context.bobobase_modification_time() if t > mod_date: mod_date = t return mod_date I needed this for a project... -- Jim Washington _______________________________________________ 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] Modification Reminder
by abg＠comco-inc.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Thanks! Worked like a charm. In addition to not converting the variable I was looking for to an integer, I didn't have the TinyTable column defined as :int, so I was doubly screwed. Whoops. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jim Washington Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:28 PM To: Niclas Kuehne Cc: Zope Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Zope] Modification Reminder Niclas Kuehne wrote: >I am working on a project that requires people to update their >(HTML-)documents about once every 6 month. Is there a Zope "plug-in" of any >kind that gives me the opportunity to check all the files in a specific >folder and it's subfolders for the modification time and send an email to >the user who uploaded/created it if the modification date lies back more >than 6 month? Has anyone any experiences with a problem like this and could >offer a solution? Thank you very much for any help. > Here's part of it, which may be called from any folderish object: PythonScript named last_modification_date(mod_date=None) if mod_date is None: mod_date = context.bobobase_modification_time() newlist = context.objectValues() if len(newlist) > 0: for k in newlist: z = k.bobobase_modification_time() if z > mod_date: mod_date = z if k.isPrincipiaFolderish: z = k.last_modification_date(mod_date = mod_date) if z > mod_date: mod_date = z else: t = context.bobobase_modification_time() if t > mod_date: mod_date = t return mod_date I needed this for a project... -- Jim Washington _______________________________________________ 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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Installing ZODBC --- adding the product
by Ivan Stegic 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi all --- First off, I am a novice at Zope. I have it installed on a WinNT 4.0 box, and I am trying to interface it with MS SQL 7.0. I am having problems installing sql.pyd into Zope itself. I can't seem to make it appear under the add method drop-down. Anyone give me a step-by- step guide (link or instructions in the email) to adding sql.pyd to make it appear, because I can simply not find any reference out there on the web. Geez. Thanks in advance, Ivan. ______________________________ Ivan Stegic ivan(a)stegic.com http://Stegic.com

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Modification Reminder
by Niclas Kuehne 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

I am working on a project that requires people to update their (HTML-)documents about once every 6 month. Is there a Zope "plug-in" of any kind that gives me the opportunity to check all the files in a specific folder and it's subfolders for the modification time and send an email to the user who uploaded/created it if the modification date lies back more than 6 month? Has anyone any experiences with a problem like this and could offer a solution? Thank you very much for any help. Niclas Kuehne

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RE: [Zope] Accessrule and site root folder "in the depth" of the zope tree
by abg＠comco-inc.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi Gilles, Why not just use SiteAccess w/Enhanced VirtualHostMonster (http://www.zope.org/Members/sfm/SiteAccessEnhanced)? This product does away with the need for extra AccessRules. It's a very clean product. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Gilles Lenfant Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:52 PM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] Accessrule and site root folder "in the depth" of the zope tree Hi, As you can see in the nexts script (accessrule), I want all request to www.site2.com to start from the Zope folder "somewhere/site2" (2nd level of ZODB tree) but it does not work when it works for site1 (like all others at first level of ZODB tree). Is there something I missed (I'm sure I did but what... :)). Thanks in advance. --Gilles ================ servermap = { 'www.site1.com': 'site1', 'www.site2.com': 'somewhere/site2' } machine = _.string.lower(_.string.split(context.REQUEST.HTTP_HOST, ':')[0]) if servermap.has_key(machine): context.REQUEST['TraversalRequestNameStack'].append(servermap[machine]) return _______________________________________________ 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] TinyTable Querying Question
by Meilicke, Scott 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Is it treating your variable as a string vs. a number? If so, you can use <dtml-var expr="_.string.atoi(myVariable)"> to convert from a string to a number. Scott -----Original Message----- From: abg(a)comco-inc.com [mailto:abg@comco-inc.com] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:23 PM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] TinyTable Querying Question Hi, I am quite sure that I'm missing something obvious, but I'm absolutely pulling my hair out. I am trying to pull data out of a TinyTable based on a variable. Here's an example: <dtml-in "TinyTable(row_id= myVariable)"> <dtml-var col_1> </dtml-in> If I replace myVariable with a literal, like '1', it works (naturally). What am I overlooking? Thanks in advance, Aaron Gillette _______________________________________________ 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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TinyTable Querying Question
by abg＠comco-inc.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Hi, I am quite sure that I'm missing something obvious, but I'm absolutely pulling my hair out. I am trying to pull data out of a TinyTable based on a variable. Here's an example: <dtml-in "TinyTable(row_id= myVariable)"> <dtml-var col_1> </dtml-in> If I replace myVariable with a literal, like '1', it works (naturally). What am I overlooking? Thanks in advance, Aaron Gillette

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?Calling a Zope method from a Zope product?
by Julián Muñoz Domínguez 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

I try to call a python script from a Zope product developped in python, from a function which is a thread: _thread=threading.Thread(None,self._checkExpired) _thread.setDaemon(1) _thread.start() def _checkExpired(self): if hasattr(self,'onSessionExpire'): self.onSessionExpire() onSessionExpire() is the python script I want to launch. The error I have on the console is: 2001-10-12T17:22:45 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x003\xbf' Traceback (innermost last): File /home/julian/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 519, in setstate AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'load' Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/julian/Zope/lib/python2.1/threading.py", line 378, in __bootstrap self.run() File "/home/julian/Zope/lib/python2.1/threading.py", line 366, in run apply(self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs) File "/home/julian/Zope/lib/python/Products/CookieLess/Session.py", line 283, in _checkExpired self._expireSession(session) File "/home/julian/Zope/lib/python/Products/CookieLess/Session.py", line 289, in _expireSession self.onSessionExpire() AttributeError: __call__ I am not sure of what is happening, have you an idea ??? (Zope is 2.4.1) -- __o _ \<_ (_)/(_) Saludos de Julián EA4ACL -.-

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