August 2003 - Zope - Zope lists

online collaboration tool
by Ramon Linan 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hi, Here is the situation, My company is using eroom, they spent lot of money every month paying this tool, eroom is an online collaboration tool, I know that can be done with Zope, I am just starting using Zope, I Love it... the fact is that they want to get rid of it and me, I need some good argument for not loosing my job... I think if I can convince then of letting me developed a Zope version of eroom that would keep me safe here for a while. My question is... which product can I use to do online collaboration? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Neil Hambleton [mailto:hambletn@netvigator.com] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:50 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] Open Source Software Survey Hello Zope Contributors, I am studying for a Master's degree with Henley Management College in the UK, and in the past have used a variety of Open Source Software. As part of my course I am conducting a survey in an attempt to identify the critical success factors for Open Source projects. If you are a user or developer for Zope, I would be very grateful if you could spare 2 or 3 minutes to fill in my questionnaire at the following URL: http://surveys.ideoconcepts.com/surveyor/index.php?sid=4&projectid=Zope This survey is completely confidential. Please accept my apologies if this is regarded as an off-topic posting. Thank you very much for your help, Neil Hambleton Email: hambletn(a)netvigator.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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RH9 experiences
by Dennis Allison 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

I am bringing up a new system (dual Athlon, RAID, 4GB memory, etc) and have been planning to use RH9 with Zope fronted by Pound. That configuration has been a good one for us under RH7.3, but I decided RH9 was a better choice because it has a longer support lifetime and because it supports CPU affinity. Several people reported here that they had problems with RH9 and threads but that upgrading to the latest version of glibc and the kernel (and, possibly, exporting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1) would make everything work. So, I rebuilt Python 2.1.3 and Pound under RH9, the latter taking a bit of effort as the interfaces to ssl have changed. Zope starts, serves the initial screen, and things die. It's not even possible to get to the management screen. The left frame comes up all right, the right doesn't display although the GETs show in the log. The LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable seems to have no effect on Zope's behavior. Running without Pound seems to fare better, so the real thread problem may lie with Pound. Anyone encountered similar problems and solved them?

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Open Source Software Survey
by Neil Hambleton 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hello Zope Contributors, I am studying for a Master's degree with Henley Management College in the UK, and in the past have used a variety of Open Source Software. As part of my course I am conducting a survey in an attempt to identify the critical success factors for Open Source projects. If you are a user or developer for Zope, I would be very grateful if you could spare 2 or 3 minutes to fill in my questionnaire at the following URL: http://surveys.ideoconcepts.com/surveyor/index.php?sid=4&projectid=Zope This survey is completely confidential. Please accept my apologies if this is regarded as an off-topic posting. Thank you very much for your help, Neil Hambleton Email: hambletn(a)netvigator.com

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RE: [Zope] When Inheritance ISN'T Such A Good Idea...
by Jim Kutter 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

beno - Our site makes heavy use of python scripts which are in the "root" of the site to provide simple display URLs. These scripts make use of the traverse_subpath variable to do this. For example our site has the url "/topics/<sometopic>/features/<feature_id>.html" Topics is a pythonscript which reads the traverse_subpath list and based on the url entered, returns a different display method. These display methods are nested in a deep directory structure in zope to make efficent use of acquisition. So going off the example, if only the <sometopic> name is present; then the topics script returns context.views.topics.details.body Where <site root>/views/topics/details/body is either a zpt/dtml/python script that produces the body of the page. If the whole URL is present, the script returns context.views.features.details.body A whole different body method that displays features. This may or may not help you, but I mention it here as an alternative way of doing things. -jim -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of beno Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 1:15 AM To: J Cameron Cooper Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] When Inheritance ISN'T Such A Good Idea... At 11:26 AM 8/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>Search engines don't like Web sites with deep directory structures. I use >>such structure to develop my Web sites to take advantage of inheritance. >>I keep all my Python scripts in a separate directory as well as the basic >>content of each page. This, of course, makes things neat and tidy in my >>Zope. So I don't want to simply throw everything in the root dir! Is >>there a way to call scripts and Template Pages from other pages such that >>it renders as a simple URL without deep directories (e.g., >>http://mysite.com/main.html ) or frames? > >Just to be picky, it's acquisition rather than inheritance. Certainly >they're similar concepts, but not quite the same. > >There is a beast called TransparentFolder that does what you describe: >reverse acquisition. >http://www.zope.org/Members/hathawsh/TransparentFolders > >It has some known performance consequences. > >If you really mean "call", then you can do things like >"root.scripts.someScript". If you mean "link to", then I'm afraid that >things in general live where they live. > >There are also things like PortableHole, MovedObject, References, et al. >(Also Redirector and Rewriter, which I never did get working.) Thanks for the direction. beno

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 2.0.1 released
by Andreas Jung 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

I just released TextIndexNG 2.0.1. This release fixes a major bug in the querying interface and has improved support for indexing Excel and Powerpoint files on Win32. Also there is a better integration with the ZMS Publishing System and files attached to TTWObject instances. This release is available from Sourceforge only (because of the ongoing zope.org migration): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50052 -aj

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User info
by Rex McKanry 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hi All, I was wondering if there is away to capture the users ID when I have someone login. I want to get the user name and find it in a database to determine if this person is a supervisor or not. Then let them see screens that others are not allowed access to. Thanks, Rex __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Cookie Crumbler - How do I use it?
by Samir Mishra 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

OK I seem to be really dense on this, just can't figure out how to actually use the cookie crumbler product for form based authentication. Would someone have an easy sample I could learn from? Usually I'm OK at this stuff... Thanks for your patience. Regards, Samir

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Site on a CD for Windows?
by Marc Burgauer 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hi We have developed a vertical market web solution for a reseller. We have also developed a demo web site for the reseller to show potential customers what the solution can do for them. After a few weeks of sales activities, it shows that a lot of their prospects do not yet have internet access. So when visiting them, the reseller can not demonstrate the solution. The sales people have asked us, if it would be possible to have the site on a CD. I can see two ways of doing this: 1.) Create a "static" version of the site that shows a set of pages illustrating what the solution could do. This would of course fail to demo the solution working. 2.) The more interesting thing would be to create a CD with a working version of Zope for Windows. As we're totally UNIX, I have absolutely no idea if this would be possible. I know Zope works Windows. What I don't know is how difficult is it to get it running. Can a normal Windows user (with no access to the Administrator's account) double-click a single .exe to get the sever running? (The sales people are not technical!) I envision a scenario like this: - Insert CD into PC - Run an "automatic installer" (Everything pre-configured, maybe with the exception as to where the files are installed to) - Open location of installation and double-click an .exe file - Open browser an point at 127.0.0.1:8080 (or something alike) My questions: Has somebody created something like this for Windows and could point me towards what I need to do? Is there free software to create the installer, ideally supporting an easy way to un-install as well? What requirements exist on Windows? (In other words, what can go wrong?) Cheers Marc

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Problem with dtml-if sequence-start
by Borja Prieto 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

I have a problem with the following code, wich is a DTML methos that processes a form: <dtml-with REQUEST> (First, I check if the user has completed the txtCertificado field) <dtml-unless txtCertificado> <dtml-return "RESPONSE.redirect(URL1+'/InicioIC'+'?msg_error=Error: debe introducir un número de certificado')"> </dtml-unless> (Then, I lookup in a MySQL table with the method BuscaCertificado if a record with the value txtCertificado does already exists) <dtml-in BuscaCertificado> (if it is found, return with an error message) <dtml-if sequence-start> <dtml-return "RESPONSE.redirect(URL1+'/InicioIC'+'?msg_error=Error: el certificado '+txtCertificado+' ya existe')"> </dtml-if sequence-start> (and if not, go to IC page. This is the part that does not work) <dtml-return "RESPONSE.redirect(URL1+'/IC'+'?msg_error='+txtCertificado)"> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> The problem is that the program, though evaluates right the cases for nonexistent parameter or parameter already in the DB, it does not even reach the line: <dtml-return "RESPONSE.redirect(URL1+'/IC'+'?msg_error='+txtCertificado)"> Instead, it shows a blank page, with no code. There is no problem with this code, because I have tried changing it to show a simple message, and it doesn't work, too. Please, ¿could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance Borja Prieto Ursúa Alanta

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Re: [Zope] request.set sequence value
by Jaroslav Lukesh 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

> Odesílatel: Michael Bleijerveld <michael(a)bleijerveld.nl> > When I use this statement I get the following error. > > Error Type: AttributeError > Error Value: set > Greetings,Michael----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw(a)nipltd.com> > > > Here are the statements which generates an error. > > > > > > <dtml-if next-sequence> > > > <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('query_start',<dtml-var > > > next-sequence-start-number>)"> > > > > Okay, you can't do this! > > > > you want: > > > > <dtml-call > "REQUEST.set('query_start',_.getitem('next-sequence-start-number'))"> > > Hi, try that: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('query_start',_['next-sequence-start-number'])"> Regards, JL.

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