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set role authenticated for logged in user
by Michael Bleijerveld 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hello, I am building some sort of login manager with Interbase. How can the user be validated from Interbase act as an authenticated user ? Must I add a local role ? Regards, Michael

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RE: [Zope] online collaboration tool
by Ramon Linan 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Alex, Thank you very much, it looks exactly like the thing I am looking for. Now, I am going to try to impress then. I have a question though, I have a REDHAT with zope and several windows 2000 servers, which one will you advice me to install it in? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Alex Coventry [mailto:throwaway@MIT.EDU] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:37 AM To: Ramon Linan Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] online collaboration tool > 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. I used plone for just this purpose, getting rid of e-room. (except the keeping-my-job part. :) I suggest you discuss it with your boss before you start on it, though. It's easy once you know how, but it was a bit of work for me. It may take you more than longer than an empty afternoon. I have found it relatively painless once it was going, though. OTOH, I recommended it to a friend, and he has found it to be a pain in the neck. YMMV. I strongly recommend installing and using TextIndexNG, as well as plone's explicit dependancies. This allows indexing of word documents, PDFs, etc. You do this by replacing the SearchableText object in the Indexes section of the portal_catalog with a TextIndexNG object. You want to turn on the "use converters" option when you install it. Then you click the "Reindex" button in the Indexes page. You may also want to play with the workflow, depending on how you want to use it for collaboration. One way to do this is to make Published the Initial State in the States tab of the workflow tabs. I also stuck my Zope web and webDAV services behind Apache SSL proxies. For that, a Virtual Host Monster is useful. HTH. Alex.

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Announce: new www.zope.org is LIVE!
by Brian Lloyd 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

At long last, http://www.zope.org has gone live with a new look and a new platform based on Zope 2.6.2, CMF 1.3 and Plone! Our thanks go to the cast of thousands who have participated in this project over time, most recently Guido van Rossum and Sidnei de Silva for getting us to the goal line. Zope.org is a big site with a lot of content. We've tried hard to test the most common resources, but we fully expect some issues to arise in the transition. We are also certain that the best way to work things out quickly is to 'make it live' and tackle the issues as they come up. If you notice anything weird, broken or missing from the site, please send us a problem reporting using the ZopeOrg issue collector: http://collector.zope.org/ZopeOrg/collector_add_issue_form Issues that we are aware of and working to resolve this week include: - Logging in as a member takes a ridiculously long time. We think this might be an LDAP interaction and we working to fix it. - We have not done extensive cache tuning yet - if you experience any unreasonably slow load times, please let us know the URL you were trying to get to help us tune caching. The old sites will remain accessible for some time at the following URLs in case anything was missed in the transition: - http://old.zope.org - http://olddev.zope.org Note that it will take some time for DNS changes to propagate, so you may not see the site changes immediately. Thanks again to everyone who has been involved in making this happen! Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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T-minus an hour or so for new zope.org :)
by Brian Lloyd 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

As threatened, ...er promised, we are going to switch over to the new zope.org this afternoon. :) The site will be intermittently weird and unavailable for a short while this afternoon (EST) while we make the switch, change DNS, etc. Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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RE: [Zope] online collaboration tool
by Ramon Linan 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Again, thanks, I spoke with my boss, I still have some hopes... New question, we need also workflow, eroom didn't have work flow at all, so if I can tell my boss that I can also give him work flow with this tool that would keep me safe :) Do anybody knows how is the work flow handle by Plone, I have read something about CMFOpenflow, is it hard to implement? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Reinhardt [mailto:zope@dylanreinhardt.com] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:20 PM To: Ramon Linan Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] online collaboration tool On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:00, Ramon Linan wrote: > I have a REDHAT with zope and several windows 2000 servers, which one will you advice me to install it in? It hardly matters for development purposes. I'd choose whichever one you feel most comfortable with or have root/admin privileges on. Probably you can run it as localhost:8080 on your desktop machine. The only real advice I'd offer is this: Don't do your development or learning on a machine currently being used as a production server. That's a *very* poor way to build job security. :-) As long as all the machines in question are reasonably modern there's little chance you're going to see a big performance difference until your app gets used by more than a handful of people. At that point, it's pretty easy to move from Windows to Linux or vice versa. HTH, Dylan

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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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