November 2002 - Zope

Zope 2.6 cut - copy - paste fails
by hpinson＠indepthl.com 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi, I just installed Zope 2.6 on Redhat Linux 6.2, and cut, copy, paste fails completely in the Zope IDE. I have looked at the security tab, and permissions are setup as per a default install, with everything aquiring permissions from the root folder. Nothing has been changed from default install permissions. Next, I did try to set copy and move permissions for the Manager role, something I've enever had to do before, but with no effect. Cut, copy, and paste still does not work. Cookies are on in my Mozilla and IE browser. I've never seen this problem on any other version install. What could be going on? Thanks. Harlow Pinson Indepth Learning Email: hpinson(a)indepthl.com Web: http://www.indepthl.com Voice: 505-994-2135 FAX: 208-475-7678

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HOW: Attach spreadsheet in zope app?
by Michael Guerrero 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

I've created an application that allow a salesperson to enter sales information for a perspective customer. When the salespersons 'saves' the information an email is sent to our financial analyst. He then goes into the application views the information then does some financial analysis in excel. I would then to create a button for the analyst called 'Attach Analysis Results' that would browse the pc and allow the anlayst to attach the spreadsheet. The user would later log on and have a button called 'View Analysis Results'. That would allow them to view the spreadsheet. What is the best way to do this? I have the Zope Bible but could not find a good example. Thanks. Mike

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ANNOUNCE: BlogDot - a Squishdot mod
by Mario Valente 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi: In one of our projects we had the need to use instances of Squishdot but with the ability to modify the layout and design. Since this was a pain (because Squishdot uses standard HTML tags to do layout and design: stuff like <b>, <p>, <table>, etc) we created a Z Class that "enveloped" all the Squishdot stuff in XML and DIV tags. With this we are able to change layout and design quite easily by editing a CSS. This "product" is available at http://www.zope.org/Members/zorton/BlogDot/ BTW, you can check out the use we made of this product at http://www.blogdot.org/ where you'll be able to generate endless Squishdot/Slashdot lookalikes :-) When/If you create a blogdot, check out the source code of both the site and its CSS to see the use we made of XML+CSS. Feel free to play around with the layout/design editor. Any testing/suggestions/critiques/bug reports are welcome :-) C U! -- Mario Valente

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Cigarettes online at the lowest possible prices ONLY FOR zope@zope.org
by ppol310 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

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Password Conflict (Restatement)
by Dan Shafer 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

I appreciate the attempts at help I've gotten here to my earlier post. What is clear to me as I read them is that I have done a poor job of explaining my problem. My customer site has an acl_user folder at the top level. Only users whose names appear in that folder can update the site in any way. But the site includes a folder called Clearings which houses a set of Python scripts and HTML forms that together constitute an application which adds information to the Zope database (creates a folder and multiple documents). My client would like to allow anyone to whom he issues a password (which one of my scripts randomly generates on demand) the ability to run those scripts which update the site, but not do any other site updating or be able to see other aspects of the site. So when a person goes to the URL he gives them, they are challenged for a password. If they supply the proper password, they should then be allowed to visit the HTML forms which execute the Python scripts which in turn update the Zope database. I can't see how to use acl_users for this since I would have to either create a new user along with each new password generated or update the password for a pre-named user (like "client") in the acl_folder. Presumably even if I could figure out how to do that (which I haven't been able to do yet), I would need to create a new role for these individuals. My experience with Zope says that any time I run into something that feels this complex, I'm probably not thinking in Zope. I have received two suggestions. One suggests cutting the eight-character password into two slices, the first N characters being the user name and the remaining characters being the password for this user. But I think I would have to create a new user in the acl_users folder programmatically for this to have any chance of working and then I'd still have two problems: (1) I don't see any way to programmatically add users to acl_users; and, more importantly, (2) at any one time there can only be one such special user and password, so I'd have to know how to delete a user programmatically as well. This in turn would entail the need to know the name of the bogus user in a way that a script could discover it. Sounds convoluted to me. The other idea was to try an empty user name in Zope. I did. It's a no-go. Hopefully this was a clearer statement of the question and someone can help me. This entire site is ready for the user to take delivery and pay me but for this glitch!

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cann't log into manage
by Hytham Shehab 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

hi guys, i have installed the lates Zope on RHL 7.2, unfortunately, i forgot to add my username/passwd during installation, so i run python script - i think it is pypasswd.py or so - and add -u=root -p=password accessfile but i got some errors and the line no that cause the error - that means in the python script. how can i add my username/password so i can manage? thx n advance. -- Hytham Shehab

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formulator product
by David Bear 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

I had a folder the contains zpt objects call stuff. I would like to populat a checkbox type form element with the object id's of the contents of that folder -- stuff. The trouble is I'm using TAL and cant find much in the way of examples of using tal to do this. Any pointers?

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Iterating over objects in temp_folder/session_data
by Tony McDonald 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi all, I'd like to iterate over all transient objects and SESSION variables held in those transient objects on our server. That is all the transient objects held in temp_folder/session_data. Ideally I'd like to be able to access the variables in the same way that we access then now, ie <dtml-var "REQUEST['SESSION']['username']"> except it wouldn¹t happen that way would it :) Any snippets around to show how to do this? TIA for any pointers Tone. -- Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 243 6140 A Zope list for UK HE/FE http://www.fmcc.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/zope

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SMTPRecipientsRefused
by Hamzat Kamal 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi, I am facing this error I have replaced my SMTP with ESMTP which allow me to enter my SMTPUserid and SMTPPassword them the error is still coming out. What else canI do ? Error Type: SMTPRecipientsRefused Error Value: {'f_uzertin(a)hotmail.com': (553, "sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)")} Thanks ===== Hamzat kamaldeen Ishola Dnet Systems Limited. 223 Ikorodu Road, Lagos. Nigeria. 234 1 7749381, 234 08033011305 --- If Mistake is an opportunity to see better,�then do not fear it, but ready to admit it. NOTE: Sentimental decisions are not mistakes but failures !!!� __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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ZopeWeeklyNews - Comments Needed on the Final Draft!
by george donnelly 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

hi all The final draft of the latest Zope Weekly News is ready and we need your help: Did we leave something out? Got something you want to put in? Do we have any mistakes, errors, gaffes? http://zope.org/Members/zettai/ZopeNews1102 Primary credit for this edition goes to Carlos de la Guardia. :) Thanks! <--> george donnelly - http://zettai.net/ - "We Love Newbies" :) Zope Hosting - Dynamic Website Design - Search Engine Promotion Yahoo, AIM: zettainet - ICQ: 51907738 - e:george@zettai.net

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