May 2001 - Zope - Zope lists

listservs, forums and Zope...
by Larry Prikockis 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi... I'm wondering if anyone has done anything along the lines of creating an interface between an email list product such as listserv or majordomo and Zope... I'm setting up a small intranet site using Zope and trying to figure out if there's an easy way to integrate our existing majordomo lists with the new Zope site. If one of the Zope forum products had an option for email notification, that would go a long way towards solving the problem-- but it doesn't seem like any provide this function at present. Alternatively, if there were a product that could accept an email message and create a message archive (ala hypermail), that would be great too... I'm not yet familiar with Zope and python to create something like this myself easily, but it seems to be a fairly simple thing. any ideas would be appreciated... Larry + Larry J. Prikockis Web Applications Specialist Association for Biodiversity Information 703-908-1833 / larry_prikockis(a)abi.org / www.abi.org + All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

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French language problems
by Peter Bengtsson 11 May '01

11 May '01

I want to "filter" the user input a bit. If somebody submits name="éèà", in the end I want: name="eea" So I tried this: <pseudo atr="filling in the input name='é'"> print self.REQUEST['name'], 'é' print self.REQUEST['name'] == 'é' </pseudo> This returns '\303\251', 'é' 0 Basically, how do I compare self.REQUEST['name'] with 'é' and get true? (assuming the name variable is set to "é". (you understand what I mean) Any hints of the right approach? Peter

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Acting As a Regular Server
by Ben Ocean 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi; I know there are several products out there for making regular URLs resolve (e.g.; http://localhost.com/ ) and getting Zope to interpret it all correctly, but I've misplaced my notes and given up searching the Zope site after an hour: what are they again? Also, is it possible to simply reconfigure one's httpd.conf file in such a way to redirect traffic to the appropriate directory (and what would that be?). I don't want to have to reconfigure all of my virtualhosts to make them call up Zope, just the new ones I'll be building on this platform, but it sure would be nice to use the Apache server. What's the best way to do this? TIA, BenO

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Re: [Zope] ZServer Must Be Continually Re-Started: my Method to stop zope dead: timeoutsocket:
by Gilles Lavaux 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hello, I have try using the timeoutsocket library, by inserting this inside the z2.py : sockettimeout=60 import timeoutsocket timeoutsocket.setDefaultSocketTimeout(sockettimeout) Still get the same result: it hang. And it's probably normal. Gilles

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addtional property in dtml-tree?
by Klaus Herrmann 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi! I have the following problem: i have a dtml-tree listing the directory structure. but i want to be able to define a property called "hidden" (bool) on folders. these hidden folders mustn't appear in the tree. any ideas how this could be done? thank in advance! regards, Klaus -- Klaus Herrmann <klaus.herrmann(a)goelz.com> Goelz & Schwarz GmbH, Munich www.goelz.com phone:+49 - (0)89 - 544 67 0 22 fax: +49 - (0)89 - 544 67 0 10

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[ANN] ZShell 0.7
by Jerome Alet 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi, you can download ZShell 0.7 from http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/zshell ZShell is an external Zope method which allows you to manipulate the ZODB using standard unix shell's commands from within Zope's Management Interface in your web browser. It's a very powerful tool which can possibly destroy your ZODB's contents when not used correctly: You've been warned. Actually no security assertion is made in some methods, which are: restart, shutdown, lrole and pack. Other methods will work or exit with a message, depending on your current privileges. Actually 47 commands similar to that of a standard Unix shell are recognized (only 38 Work, the last 9 are only skeletons, see below) New features: - Command mkuf added. - Skeleton for commands added: suckfs, find, locate, replace, grep, passwd, domains, roles, history Just for people to know what will happen one day ;-) - Some code commented out in the hope to finally solve the problem many have encountered (except me !) - Commands that don't need shell expansion mechanism don't use it anymore. - A bug when using a zshell.css stylesheet was corrected. - about command output changed. Please report any problem you may encounter because I think the bug many encountered is now closed thanks to Godefroid Chapelle, but I really want to be sure to reactivate some other parts I've deactivated temporarily. Thanks in advance. Jerome Alet - alet(a)unice.fr

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MySQL Request delivers wrong format
by Stefan Pöhnlein 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hello, I've a problem concerning a MySQL request. When I request a data from the type Int I don't get as result just the fihure, like e.g. 1, 2, 3, ...... but instead of that 1 L, 2 L ,..... It must be a problem of the Zope Version, or the ZMySQL Adaper, because an older version of both works quite well, with the same MySQL Database. Does anybody know about the problem. Many thanks in advance, Stefan

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Re: [Zope] External method default arg weirdness
by Dieter Maurer 11 May '01

11 May '01

Paul Winkler writes: > This is with Zope 2.2.2. > If I give a default argument to the external method, and call it > from a dtml method, the default gets used even if I pass the > argument. > > Example: Try creating two external methods and calling them like > this from standard_html_footer. > > <dtml-var "my_ext_method1(_['id'])"> > <dtml-var "my_ext_method2(_['id'])"> > > > Here are the two external method definitions: > > def my_ext_method1(id): > return "<br>%s" % id > > def my_ext_method2(id="oops"): > return "<br>%s" % id > > > > Anybody else get this? Why does it do that? I know this only, if the first parameter is called "self". We use default parameters regularly (in Zope 2.1.6) and they work as expected. Dieter

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user roles in standard_error_message
by Danny William Adair 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi! While customizing my standard_error_message, I ran into a little problem: Someone with the role "Member" is logged in and tries to access a resource that does not exist. Same could happen to someone who doesn't have that role (Anonymous). Now I have two different style sheets for members and non-members: A member might click on a broken link from within the members-only area (having a... pink background), the anonymous user clicked the same broken link from a publicly accessible area of the site (having a... silver background). I would like to keep the different background colors when showing my error message so I put a <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Member')"> <dtml-var "members_css"> <dtml-else> <dtml-var "public_css"> </dtml-if> in the head section of standard_error_message (these *_css are ZStyleSheets) My problem is, that it's always the public_css that will show up. So I checked with <dtml-var "AUTHENTICATED_USER.getRoles()"> in both the members area and standard_error_message. To my surprise the member role was gone: In the members area getRoles() returned ('Member',) while in standard_error_message ( _.str(error_type)=='NotFound' ) it returned ('Anonymous',) btw, the role is not really "lost", I can go back to the members area and click through members-only pages without problems. What's happening? This looks like buggy, naughty misbehavior :-), doesn't it? tia, Danny

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RE: [Zope] Where are user created help files stored?
by Schmidt, Allen J. 11 May '01

11 May '01

On a side note I have wondered about in the past... Do help files HAVE to be attached to products? Since the help link is always available, I would like to create a help file for a FOLDER that houses all my content (DTML methods, ZSQL methods, etc.) For example, I created and maintain a Business directory of local businesses and it lives in a BusinessDirectory folder off the root. I want to create help files so that if I get 'Bussed' (run over by a bus) then those that follow me can know exactly how things are done within the 'app' - i.e. how data gets transferred in, how images are loaded, how to maintain the admin tool, etc. Would be great if the help for just this tool was context-linked to the help link in that folder. Not sure if I explained it right and maybe a simple solution. Thanks Allen -----Original Message----- From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:16 PM To: Jason Cunliffe Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Where are user created help files stored? On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jason Cunliffe wrote: > Zope2.3.2 > Win98se/Redhat6.2 > > I am upgrading the READMEs for a simple Zope Product. > I clicked through the ZMI /Control_Panel/Products/ to add some help files. > Very nice :-) An example where TTW simple editing really makes sense. > > I added two help pages for: 'install' and 'use' easily called like this: > http://jasonic/Control_Panel/Products/BSDObject/Help/use > > Then I uploaded my Product folder to remote Linux setup. > Works fine but my help files are not there :/ Creating help topics through the web is really only meant for associating them with ZClasses (you know, the little 'help' pull down box next to ZClass views) > The principle seems obvious to me -help files belong in each Products own > folder. Yep. > Where are the help files kept? In a directory in your product named 'help'. .html, .txt, and .stx files can be created there, as well as any images you want. Help topics are associated with object views in your objects 'manage_options'. See just about any core Zope product for an example. > Various searches show lots of other help folders but not for my product. > Am I doing something wrong or is the workflow for this not yet well > developed? http://www.zope.org/DocProjects/zope_product -Michel _______________________________________________ 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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