April 2004 - Zope - Zope lists

is zope right for me?
by Steve Mueller 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi all - I'm very new to Zope(i.e. literally only hours) and like what I see so far but I'm still unsure if Zope(and add-on products thereto) is the solution I'm looking for. Specifically, I am a CIO of a franchise organization that has a network of 750 owner-operated locations around the US and Canada and what I want to be able to do is to give our owners the ability to create/update/manage their owner one page 'home page' which will 'hang off' our public site. The pages for all locations need to be within a standard template and we should be able to determine what our owner-operators can update/add on their pages. Also, some of the page content will need to be controlled dynamically by data within our existing franchise database(MSSQL). This dynamic data should not be able to be updated via the Zope interface. Above all, creating/updating the pages should be extremely(and I stress extremely) simplistic. Otherwise our users will not create/maintain their site. All this being said, is Zope my answer? Is a combination of Zope and Plone my answer? Zope and a combination of some other product(s)? Am I way off here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated before I go digging into the product myself. Regards, Steve Mueller

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Reminder: IRC Session next week
by Rob Page 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hello everyone: Just a reminder that the third Zope community IRC session is next week. We are soliciting agenda topics. Please email them to: - mailto:irc_agenda_topics@zope.com Session Summary: - Who: Zope Corp and Zope Community - What: IRC session to discuss misc topics - When: Tue, Apr 13, 2004, 11a - 1215p (US/Eastern) - Where: irc.freenode.net #zope It's unlikely that we'll be able to address all requested topics though we'll make an effort to address the most pressing/popular topics. Agenda Items ------------ Report from the Open Souce Business Conference: Rob Page (5 mins) State of ZODBCDA (10 mins) Zope.org update (5 mins) Zope 2 Update (5 mins) Zope 3 Update (5 mins) Development at Zope Corp (10 mins) Other Agenda Items (20-30 mins) Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412

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zdaemon config file
by John Poltorak 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

How does zdctl locate its config file? Does it actually need one? -- John

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Keyword index negative query
by FLORAC Thierry 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi, I'm using Zope-2.6.1 with ZCatalog and several Keyword indexes. How can I make a query on a KeywordIndex to get objects for which a given value is not found ?? Typically, each of my objects is identified by a globally unique ID (OID) ; an object can keep a reference to another object through an "oid_refs" property (a list), which is indexed in a keyword index. What I want is to be able to find, for example, objects of a given meta-type, eventually stored in a given folder, which are NOT referenced by other objects. Thanks for any help, Thierry -- Linux every day, keeps Dr Watson away... http://gpc.sourceforge.net -- http://www.ulthar.net

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zdrun & zopectl
by John Poltorak 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

How do zdrun & zopectl work together? I need to be able to use the '-s' option with zdrun but don't know where to set it when starting zope using zopectl. Any advice would be appreciated. -- John

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Apache 2 and Zope Integration
by Ade Fewings 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi all, I'm trying to persuade our powers-that-be that a switch-over to using Zope for our website would be "a good idea". For this, the best way for me to achieve things is using Zope and the existing Apache stuff together. I've been following the guide at http://zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver for using Apache's Inverse Proxy ability to reach our Zope installation. However, I am having the problem that i have to log in twice to the management interface and then when i come to log out of it, i get the following error from Apache: The requested URL /manage_zmi_logout was not found on this server. I have the following in httpd.conf [changed the names to protect the server]: ProxyPass /Zope http://a.b.com:81/ ProxyPassReverse /Zope http://a.b.com:81/ ProxyPass /misc_ http://a.b.com:81/misc_ ProxyPass /p_ http://a.b.com:81/p_ I have also added the SiteRoot object in the management root. Does anybody have any idea what i might have done wrong? Is it because we are using Apache 2 [2.0.48]? Many thanks Ade

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Announcing zopewiki.org !
by Simon Michael 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi all, I've set up a general-purpose Zope wiki at http://zopewiki.org . The blurb says: "This is a public wiki site for Zope , the open source web application server. Zope documentation has historically been scattered and hard to update. zopewiki.org aims to provide a single, simple, user-owned Zope documentation site to tie it all together." I have been wanting something like this for some time. At one time I thought it had to be on zope.org, but not now. It's time to stick my own neck out and risk public humiliation. I hope you'll all get involved and we can fix this accursed zope documentation problem. :)

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RE: [Zope] Re: Rendering DTML from string
by Samir Mishra 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

That's exactly what I have, DTML code in a text file. It's been generated by python and contains "<dtml-XXX ???>" tags. I want read and execute the text file in Zope. The reason the above file resides on the local file system rather than within Zope is a design choice. I felt it would make life easier for us in certain respects. I may have been wrong. When I use - <dtml-let routine="_.getattr(LFSfiles, 'testfile.txt')"> <dtml-var "_[routine]"> </dtml-let> I get the following error - Exception Type TypeError Exception Value expected string or Unicode object, ImplicitAcquirerWrapper found Traceback (innermost last): * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 100, in publish * Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 40, in call_object * Module OFS.DTMLMethod, line 130, in __call__ <DTMLMethod instance at 0230FE90> URL: http://localhost:8080/testing/basetest/manage_main Physical Path:/apacheVirtualHost/testing/basetest * Module DocumentTemplate.DT_String, line 474, in __call__ * Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Let, line 76, in render * Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Util, line 201, in eval __traceback_info__: _ * Module <string>, line 1, in <expression> * Module AccessControl.ZopeGuards, line 67, in guarded_getitem TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, ImplicitAcquirerWrapper found testfile.txt is - DTML code <dtml-var expr="1+2+3"> Thanks again. Samir. -----Original Message----- From: Small Business Services [mailto:toolkit@magma.ca] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 18:22 To: zope(a)zope.org; DaMann Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Rendering DTML from string From: "DaMann" <hammerhead(a)linuxmail.org> > Doesn't work <dtml-var "_[someDTMLstrObj]">. I get the raw dtml in page > source. Which doesn't display in the browser because browser doesn't > understand DTML tags. I am not familiar with the object you have stored in local file storage, but if you have the name of a dtml method stored in a variable (ie. variable routine contains 'x', where 'x' is the name of a dtml method) then you can execute that method via: <dtml-var "_[routine]"> If you have a text file containg dtml code and you want to execute that code, the only thing i can think of is to place that code into a dtml method and then execute the method, as follows: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('routine', 'tst')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('dtmlcode', '<dtml-var standard_html_header><dtml-var REQUEST><dtml-var standard_html_footer>')"> <dtml-comment> create the new method </dtml-comment> <dtml-call "manage_addDTMLMethod(routine, 'atitle')"> <dtml-comment> now put some content into the new dtml method </dtml-comment> <dtml-call "_.getitem(routine).manage_edit(dtmlcode, 'anewtitle2')"> <dtml-comment> now execute the new method </dtml-comment> <dtml-var "_[routine]"> To make this work with a text file containing dtml code, just replace the REQUEST.set('dtmlcode'... with the code to read your text file and store the contents in 'dtmlcode'. HTH Jonathan _______________________________________________ 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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ALERT - Virus W32/Netsky.c@MM found; an attachment/message has be en quarantined
by DSAVMAIL_SERVER001(Network Associates Anti-Virus - Mailbox Agent) 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Action Taken: An attempt to disinfect the attachment was unsuccessful, so the attachment was quarantined from the message and replaced with a text file informing the recipient of the action taken. The infected attachment has been placed in the designated quarantine folder. Please exercise extreme caution when handling the quarantined attachment To: sschmidke(a)psych.uic.edu From: zope(a)zope.org Sent: -1699568418,29629057 Subject: Re: hey Attachment Details:- Attachment Name: image.rtf.pif File: imagertf.pif Infected? Yes Repaired? No Virus Name: W32/Netsky.c@MM

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RE: [Zope] Upgrade to 2.7.0: servic-start problem and copy of dat a.fs
by Samir Mishra 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Unless you're using the LocalFS product in Zope. That may cause any folders LocalFS is located in to become inaccessible. -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 02:53 To: Zanotti Michele Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Upgrade to 2.7.0: servic-start problem and copy of data.fs Zanotti Michele wrote at 2004-4-1 21:14 +0200: > ... >2) I have simply copied my old data.fs in Zope-instance var: (nearly) >everything seems work, but is this correct or it is better exporting and >importing my Zope-site folders? It is the correct way -- much better than exporting/importing. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ 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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