November 2001 - Zope

Maybe a stupid newbie question - forcing an in loop to the Root Folder's context.
by Jim Nicholson 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I've created a method in the root folder that basically does some dtml-in looping over objectValues. It works fine when included (via var) in other methods and docs in the root window. The problem is that I want it to be aquired by sub-folders, but want it to still loop through the root folder's contents. In other words, I should be able to call my method anywhere in sub-folders or items deep in the site, and still get a list of objects in the root folder. Can I do this in DTML? Does it require python? Does it need to be an external script? Can someone point me in a direction? - Jim dongle(a)home.com

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Zopera vous propose d'interviewer Paul Everitt !
by Olivier Deckmyn 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Bonjour à tous, Comme chacun le sait, Paul Everitt est le fondateur de Zope Corp et un des pères de Zope, avec Jim Fulton. Profitant d'un court séjour de Paul en France, l'équipe de Zopera a fait une demande d'interview qu'il a accepté avec plaisir. Zopera se propose de lui relayer les questions que VOUS voulez lui poser ! Profitez de cette occasion unique pour la communauté francophone de montrer à Zope Corp. l'importance et l'engouement pour Zope hors des Etats-Unis et d'avoir réponse à toutes vos questions. Pour ce faire, Zopera se propose de collecter les questions auprès de vous, membres de la communauté qui fait le succès de Zope. Envoyez vos questions à zopera(a)zopera.org Planning : Lu 19/11 : Lancement de l'opération Lu 19/11 à Je 22/11 : Récolte des questions, avec une synthèse des questions reçues tous les soirs. Je 22/11 - 12h00: Cloture des questions, publication du "questionnaire". Lu 26/11 : Publication de l'interview sur Zopera.org Envoyez tous vos questions à zopera(a)zopera.org au plus vite ! Amicalement, Olivier, Zopera Team. ps : désolé pour le cross-post

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localization for zope...
by sree 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Dear zope users, We are tryig to build zope based multilingual web site. If any body has experience in the same, Please give your openion. Regards, - sree

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Metadata Issue
by j.c.mcnulty＠open.ac.uk 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I have a problem with Metadata. Metadata can put a document in an area where the author has no publishing rights, is there a way to get around it? Thanks James

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Change title of ZClass Help Folder?
by Lars Heber 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Hello all, having renamed a product with ZClasses inside from ABC to XYZ, I also want to change the title of the help topics. But the help folder in my ZClass still has the title ABC. But this now should also be XYZ. How can I do that? There's no Properties tab in the help folder. I also tried to programmatically (with DTML) change the property title of the help folder - this folder does not have a property "title"! What can I do? Do I have to hack some files somewhere? In the folder lib/python/Products the ZClass products don't appear. So where do I have to change things? Thanks. -- Lars Heber, mailto:Lars.Heber@t-systems.de T-Systems, debis Systemhaus GEI GmbH, Geschaeftsstelle Sachsen

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Calculation with 2 DateTime objects
by Gitte Wange 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Hello, I have been working on this problem for some time now but I cannot seem to find a solution. What I need to do is to find a date (with time) from some informations .. I have a start date for an event, I have a timestamp for an encode start time and I have a timestamp for when a clip starts ... Now I want to find the RealTime date (with time) for the clip ... The code I have looks like this: event = eventstart.Date() enc = event + ' ' + str(encstart) + ' GMT' tcpoint = event + ' ' + str(tc) + ' GMT' (the reason for inserting the eventstart date in the enc string and the tcpoint string is because I want to create 2 DateTime objects - but that requires a date) ... Now I want to say: real_tc_time = DateTime(enc) + DateTime(tcpoint) But ... I get an error saying that you cannot add 2 DateTime objects ?? So how could I do this calculation ? -- Gitte Wange Jensen Sys Admin, Developer and a lot more MMmanager.org Aps, Denmark Phone: +45 29 72 79 72 Email: gitte(a)mmmanager.org Web: www.mmmanager.org Quote of the day: Give it your worst. After you recover from being hung-over, of course. - Linus Torvalds

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Hang while waiting for external process
by Paul Winkler 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I'm using zope 2.4.3 on linux (redhat 7 with kernel 2.4.14), playing around with the Photo product (nice one!). I've had a few zope freezes, and finally found a pattern: Occasionally, if using ImageMagick to do the rendering for Photo, convert will fail to complete and Zope will then become completely unresponsive. Browser requests do nothing. This is weird. I can understand how one of the Zope threads might get stuck waiting for the never-ending external process; but why should Zope become completely unresponsive? Shouldn't the other threads keep responding? And is there a way to set a timeout for an external process, such that zope can recover if it fails to return for too long? Here's output of ps showing the defunct convert process: (snip) 891 pts/0 S 0:00 python2.1 /home/pw/Downloads/Zope/z2.py -M /home/pw/C 896 pts/0 S 0:09 \_ /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/pw/Downloads/Zope/ 919 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/pw/Downloads/Z 920 pts/0 S 0:29 \_ /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/pw/Downloa 1001 pts/0 Z 0:00 | \_ [convert <defunct>] 921 pts/0 S 0:05 \_ /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/pw/Downloa 922 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/pw/Downloa 923 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /home/pw/Downloa I can then get zope to restart by killing any of the zope PIDs. Here's the big M log leading up to the freeze - nothing unusual:... requestprofiler.py doesn't show any hangs in this log... $ tail -f bigM E 147423764 2001-11-15T17:36:05 B 143413564 2001-11-15T17:36:16 GET /test_crap/my_image_library/nothing I 143413564 2001-11-15T17:36:16 0 A 143413564 2001-11-15T17:36:16 500 2485 E 143413564 2001-11-15T17:36:16 B 147432596 2001-11-15T17:36:25 GET /test_crap/my_image_library/lilaq-logo.jpg I 147432596 2001-11-15T17:36:25 0 A 147432596 2001-11-15T17:36:25 304 282 E 147432596 2001-11-15T17:36:25 -- paul winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com music: http://www.reacharms.com calendars: http://www.calendargalaxy.com

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Introspection?
by azbok＠yahoo.com 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Hi I'm wondering how one would figure out what methods/globals that are available for use in a zope python script? I know about the dirs(), globals() and locals() functions that you can use in regular python, but I can't use them in zope. I get a NameError. Is there any way to use the builtins functions? Thanks for info

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ANNOUNCE: LDAPUserFolder and CMFLDAP 1.1
by Jens Vagelpohl 18 Nov '01

18 Nov '01

hi everybody, i packaged the first non-beta relase of the LDAPUserFolder today as well as a new version of CMFLDAP, changed to work with the LDAPUserFolder. here is the official description:: *********** The LDAPUserFolder is a Zope User Folder replacement for authenticating against LDAP. It provides a full range of user management functionality and built-in caching for good performance. Both HTTP basic authentication as well as cookie-based authentication with custom login pages is supported. This product was written for Zope version 2.4 and higher and provides a single replacement for the LDAPLoginAdapter/LDAPUserManager combo. ************ ************ CMFLDAP is a Zope CMF product that replaces the standard membership management tools (Membership Tool, Member Data Tool) with a set that speaks LDAP. It requires a working LDAPUserFolder ************ both products are at http://www.dataflake.org/software/ along with bug trackers etc. jens

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The Ghost of PTKDemo
by Ben Ocean 18 Nov '01

18 Nov '01

Hi; I'm *still* having problems ridding myself of a product that somehow has etched its memory into Data.fs. The error I run into states Zope can't import module PTKDemo. I moved out all products that weren't essential, deleted them out of the ZMI and restarted Zope, but the error remained. Here's a traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 226, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: defaultRack) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_storageForm) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: manage_storageForm) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Shared/DC/Scripts/Bindings.py, line 324, in __call__ (Object: manage_storageForm) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Shared/DC/Scripts/Bindings.py, line 354, in _bindAndExec (Object: manage_storageForm) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/App/special_dtml.py, line 244, in _exec (Object: manage_storageForm) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.py, line 691, in renderwob (Object: manage_product_zclass_info) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Products/ZPatterns/DataManagers.py, line 104, in manage_product_zclass_info (Object: defaultRack) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Products/ZPatterns/DataManagers.py, line 92, in _unifiedZClassRegistry (Object: defaultRack) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Products/PlugIns/PlugIns.py, line 674, in unifiedZClassRegistry (Object: defaultRack) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/Products/ZPatterns/DataManagers.py, line 86, in _zclassOK (Object: defaultRack) File /apache/ZopeInstallation/Zope_software_home/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 544, in setstate ImportError: (see above) Any ideas? TIA, BenO

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