April 2002 - Zope - Zope lists

LDAPUserFolder and Zope 2.5.1
by Josef Meile 08 May '02

08 May '02

As I know, LDAP it's a standard protocol to access a user database on a server. I also read that by using LDAP you can read and write on this database. In my case, I only have read permissions and I'm not allowed to see the database internal structure neither to change it. I've tried to get it work but it doesn't and don't know why. I Just create a schema as follows: LDAP Server: ldap.myorganization.ch Login name attribute: uid RDN Attribute: Canonical name Users base DN: ou=student,o=myorganization,c=ch Scope: Subtree Group storage: Groups not stored on LDAP server Groups Base DN: same as Users base DN (I don't know what else can I put here and I don't have more info) LDAPLogin and Pasword are empty User object classes: top,person User password encryption: crypt Default User Roles: Anonymous Authentication: Basic HTTP Authentication Next I added the group student and assigned it my local Zope role Student. My question is how can I populate my user folder? I saw the feature add user, but I need to add 500 hundred users and I guess this is not the way of doing it and I don't see anythin on the Caches tab. My logic says my that this feature is only if you want to add users to your ldap database. But I rather than add want to authenticate them. Because I don't have any result when I search by uid, I just made this: <dtml-in "findUser('sn','lastname')"> <dtml-var "_['sequence-item']"> </dtml-in> And then I saw a dictionary with lots of fields, but not uid. I'm just wondering why. I guess the authentication looks for this username and then gives the password. Whenever I observe the log contents, I see always somethin like: (9) Apr 29 20:37:55: userx not found (getUser) Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advanced, Josef.

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can below error be resolved in anyway?
by Peter Stams 05 May '02

05 May '02

Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: Bad Request Error Value: Invalid file name amphora.zexp _____ Troubleshooting Suggestions * The URL may be incorrect. * The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect. * A resource that this resource relies on may be encountering an error. For more detailed information about the error, please refer to the HTML source for this page. If the error persists please contact the site maintainer. Thank you for your patience. <http://www.zope.org/Credits> Powered by Zope Traceback (innermost last): File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 150, in publish_module File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 114, in publish File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 159, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: Zope) File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in publish File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 88, in mapply (Object: manage_importObject) File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 39, in call_object (Object: manage_importObject) File /home/amphora2/zope2/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 512, in manage_importObject (Object: Zope) Bad Request: (see above) Peter Stams, EXORIOR B.V. Phone : +31 (0)23 540 1234 Mobile : +31 (0)6 2901 5654 Fax : +31 (0)23 540 1395 E-mail : p.stams(a)exorior.nl Spaarnwouderstraat 50, 2011 AE, haarlem, The Netherlands This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. Any unauthorized disclosure, use or dissemination, either whole or partial, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of the message, please notify the sender immediately and do not, disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, store or copy the information in any medium. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by Peter Stams belong to Peter Stams.

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Set _allowed_meta_types on folder instances without creating a new product?
by Jeff Kowalczyk 03 May '02

03 May '02

Is there a way to set the class attribute sometimes used in products class myProduct(...): _allowed_meta_types = ('Image','File') On a regular folder instance, without creating a plethora of specialized folder classes?

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RE: [Zope] color-syntax editor for dtml
by Schmidt, Allen J. 03 May '02

03 May '02

So how do you turn on Editplus color highlight for dtml documents? I found the dtml file and installed it and found the settings tab to enable a new file type, but it is looking for an extension to associate with. How did you work around that? Looks like Editplus has made some improvements since I last looked at it. BUT, it will have to be VERY improved to get me to switch away from HomeSite - which IMHO is the BEST (Windows) tool with which to work with Zope files. I would be glad to talk offline about it since I have bored the group too often with it's praises in the past. <8^) -Allen -----Original Message----- From: hans [mailto:hans@beehive.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:43 AM To: Wendy Langer Cc: Zope List Subject: Re: [Zope] color-syntax editor for dtml Wendy Langer wrote: > Hi everyone, > I was just wondering on what people's opinions are on the best applications > to use for editing dtml files - I want something with at least a bit of > syntax coloring - is there anything designed specifically for dtml? If not, > what else would be best to use? http://www.editplus.com/ has dtml-syntaxcolor -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Who's got only a hammer sees the world as a nail hans augustin (software developer) hans(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299 _______________________________________________ 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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add instance of ZClass as authenticated user
by John Hunter 03 May '02

03 May '02

I have a Product called Course which contains a ZClass called ProjectSubmission (which resides in /Control_Panel/Products/Course). I want authenticated users to be able to add ProectSubmission instances. I have a web form that calls ProjectSubmission_add_py: REQUEST = container.REQUEST RESPONSE = REQUEST.RESPONSE pid = REQUEST.get('project_id') submission = context.ProjectSubmission.createInObjectManager(pid, REQUEST) submission.manage_addFile(id='',file=file_data) submission.manage_addFolder(id='Comments') submission.Comments.manage_addProperty('next_id', 0, 'int') propSheet = submission.propertysheets.ProjectSubmissionPropertySheet propSheet.manage_changeProperties(REQUEST) propSheet.manage_changeProperties(file_name=file_data.filename) propSheet.manage_changeProperties(submission_date=DateTime()) REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect(submission.absolute_url()) This works fine if the user has manager/owner permissions at root level, but I want it to work for a user that is simply authenticated at the container level. If I try and execute the script simply as an authenticated user at container level, I get the error: Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: ProjectSubmission Could someone advise me on how I should can change the script and/or the ProjectSubmission and Course properties and security settings so that authenticated users can add PrjectSubmissions Thanks, John Hunter

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Trouble Creating Instance of Custom Product Programmatically
by Dan Shafer 02 May '02

02 May '02

I thought I had understood the instructions at Zope.org but I'm doing something wrong. I have a custom Zope Product called PI_Clearing. It has several ZClasses in it, including one called Clearing. I want to set up a Web fom with which the user creates a new instance of a Clearing object. Following what I understand of the directions, I have this DTML method called startClearing: dtml-call "REQUEST.set('id', 'New Clearing') dtml-with "manage_addProduct['Clearing']" dtml-call "Clearing_add" /dtml-with (Angle brackets removed.) But nothing ever gets created. Clearing_add is the default add method created when I defined the Product and the Class. I've tried adding a dtml-call to set the ID of the object before calling the Clearing_add process. No luck. I get no error messages or anything, just no results. What am I not understanding?

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python scripts
by Ian! 02 May '02

02 May '02

I am having a very hard time writing python scripts for zope. I don't know which objects do what, and I can't find out where to look up the relevant documentation. I brought this up in an earlier post to the list, but I didn't get a response. I've read through the zope book (at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/contents ), but it doesn't really cover what I'm looking for - it doesn't really seem to be a guide to writing scripts. The Zope API reference seems to be the reference for people who are developing products or external methods for zope, because all of those modules can't imported from within a python script under zope, even though it seems like stuff I would want to use. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/AppendixB.stx The Zope help from within the zope management interface contains the same API reference, as well as some other stuff that (as far as I can tell) isn't what I'm looking for. I want to get the current CMF member and change some of it's extra data attributes (attributes which I added with the management interface portal_memberdata) - I don't know how to do this, but more importantly I don't know where to look up how to do it. Can anyone help me out? Sorry for being such a lost newbie =)

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Zope+Python source-code security
by Pawel Lewicki 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hallo, I was asked to make a web-application that seems to be perfect to be built in Zope and Python. And it is also the great opportunity to get to know the second one :) But the main issue is the security of the source-code. I was browsing the archive and haven't found yes/no answer if it is possible. There are a few security layers: 1. Zope management (I suppose the easiest) 2. Data.fs (Can you pull the stored objects and browse externally?) 3. Secure encryption of external Python modules and methods. If at least one of 1-2/3 elements are possible to protect it might be enough as the part of business logic would be put there. In my case the licensing issue is not a problem. The problem is how to protect the developed solution not to be copied and modified by a "naughty" customer. Unfortunately the application would have to be running on his server. How to convince my boss and myself that Zope is the best solution? Or maybe it is not? :( Pawel Lewicki P.S. Please copy the answer to my address as I have the-whole-day-subscription.

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abandonware and new.zope.org
by Milos Prudek 02 May '02

02 May '02

An idea for new.zope.org: encourage people not to abandon popular projects. Even very useful and well know Zope products get abandoned. Consider LoginManager. Both SourceForge and Freshmeat introduced rating according to "activity", which is probably the frequency of releases. This may not work 100% (some people may prefer to download software with lower frequency of releases as it may be deemed more stable) but it's a start. A more drastical approach would be tagging products that have not had a release in six months as "abandoned" in red typeface. Such products would stand out in a list of products, perhaps forcing the author to come out and say whether the product is doscontinued, but it would definitely make users better informed about the product status. Another approach would be to mark products "may be abandoned" if no release was published in six months, and "abandoned" if no release in 12 months. Just my idea. Propose something softer or harder, but IMHO some solution should be implemented. -- Milos Prudek

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image attributes
by Russell Uman 01 May '02

01 May '02

i'm trying to set the border attribute of an image tag like so: <img tal:replace="structure container/images/image.gif" tal:attributes="border string:1"> i get the following error when i load the page Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: Context instance has no attribute 'getCompilerError' how can i add the border attribute to an image?

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