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Form Action question
by McDonnell, Larry 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi, I am trying to have one of my forms provide the user the ability to choose what form to select next. I have done something similar to this in a previous form. In the first form I provide a pull down menu to let them select (Report vs. Input forms). I define the menu_type variable and submit the form. The next form, the user is still making some choices so this is where I set the variable globally (<dtml-call "REQUEST.SESSION.set('menu_type', menu_type)"> ). The user is making their final selection in this form and in the form action field I use this statement (action=<dtml-var expr="REQUEST.SESSION['menu_type']">) and this works. The user is in the form they selected and they are happy. I am working on some input forms now. The first form, the user will input a part number. The next form will display the title of the part number and any actions relating to this part number (RMAs, etc). At this point, if the user can continue to identify a problem with this part and fill in the header info (customer, address, etc.). What the user wants is the ability to add line item information about each serial number relating to the part. This is my problem. I can let them add one disposition. I tried the following: I made the <input type="hidden" name="menu_type"> on the first form. The next form the user can fill out the form and the "form action" will call a decision form. Also, I global define this variable <dtml-call "REQUEST.SESSION.set('menu_type', menu_type)"> The form is as follows: <form name="form1" method="post" action=<dtml-var expr="REQUEST.SESSION['menu_type']">> <select name="<dtml-var expr="REQUEST.SESSION['menu_type']"> "> <option value="update_nonc_partb">Add another disposition</option> <option value="update_nonc_partb_info">Save</option> </select> <dtml-var expr="REQUEST.SESSION['menu_type']"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> </form> I have tried different variation but I will get a keyerror or a global error. Any pointers would be great. Sorry for the winded message but I thought some background would help. Thanks in advance. Larry McDonnell Proton Energy Systems 10 Technology Drive Wallingford, CT 06492 (203) 678-2181 Email:lmcdonnell@protonenergy.com www.protonenergy.com

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Problem with upload object
by Andrew Davidson 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

I don't think that the object that I'm grabbing is a file upload object because I get an AttributeError when I try to access the 'filename' attribute, and when I reference the object name, it return the path of the uploaded file instead of the actual file. My Zope file then contains only a string of text that is the path that the user submitted. There's probably something obvious that I'm not doing, but I've read the documentation, and that hasn't helped. I'm using Ie6, zope is runnning on Solaris8. See below for the code and error. Your help is greatly appreciated, thanks. Andrew The form: <form action="Upload_FileAction" method="POST"> <p> Select File to Upload: <input type="file" name="uploaded" enctype="multipart/form-data"> </p> <input type="submit" value="Upload File"> </p> </form> The method: <dtml-call "manage_addProduct['OFSP'].manage_addFile(uploaded.filename,uploaded)"> The error log: Exception traceback Time 2002/11/05 10:16:31.529 US/Eastern User Name (User Id) admin (admin) Request URL http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude/Upload_FileAction Exception Type AttributeError Exception Value filename Traceback (innermost last): a.. Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 98, in publish b.. Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply c.. Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 39, in call_object d.. Module OFS.DTMLMethod, line 126, in __call__ e.. Module DocumentTemplate.DT_String, line 474, in __call__ f.. Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Util, line 201, in eval __traceback_info__: uploaded g.. Module <string>, line 2, in f AttributeError: filename form uploaded 'C:\\DATA\\Programming\\Norm & Tom - php\\test.html' cookies tree-s 'eJyLjlZ3hANPW3UdhWiEiHOWq616LBAAAL3mChA' tutorialExamplesURL 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/Tutorial/examples' lazy items SESSION <bound method SessionDataManager.getSessionData of <SessionDataManager instance at bc55a8>> other AUTHENTICATION_PATH '' URL1 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude' BASE3 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude/Upload_FileAction' URL2 'http://127.0.0.1:8080' BASE1 'http://127.0.0.1:8080' SERVER_URL 'http://127.0.0.1:8080' PUBLISHED <DTMLMethod instance at f20d40> URL 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude/Upload_FileAction' AUTHENTICATED_USER admin BASE2 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude' TraversalRequestNameStack [] uploaded 'C:\\DATA\\Programming\\Norm & Tom - php\\test.html' URL0 http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude/Upload_FileAction URL1 http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude URL2 http://127.0.0.1:8080 BASE0 http://127.0.0.1:8080 BASE1 http://127.0.0.1:8080 BASE2 http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude BASE3 http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude/Upload_FileAction environ HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 'gzip, deflate' CONTENT_TYPE 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' PATH_TRANSLATED '/Krude/Upload_FileAction' HTTP_ACCEPT 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-gsarcade-launch, */*' HTTP_COOKIE 'tutorialExamplesURL="http://127.0.0.1:8080/Tutorial/examples"; tree-s="eJyLjlZ3hANPW3UdhWiEiHOWq616LBAAAL3mChA"' HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 'en-ca' GATEWAY_INTERFACE 'CGI/1.1' SERVER_PORT '8080' HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)' CONTENT_LENGTH '67' REMOTE_ADDR '192.168.2.10' channel.creation_time 1036509387 SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.1' PATH_INFO '/Krude/Upload_FileAction' HTTP_HOST '127.0.0.1:8080' REQUEST_METHOD 'POST' SCRIPT_NAME '' SERVER_SOFTWARE 'Zope/(Zope 2.6.0 (binary release, python 2.1, solaris-2.8-sparc), python 2.1.3, sunos5) ZServer/1.1b1' HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL 'no-cache' CONNECTION_TYPE 'Keep-Alive' HTTP_REFERER 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/Krude/Upload_FileForm' SERVER_NAME 'gratuitous'

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RE: [Zope] Zope intranets: hardware requirements
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

The question that Squid answers, perhaps? Sean -----Original Message----- From: Jo Meder [mailto:jo@meder.de] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:27 PM To: christof.robert Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope intranets: hardware requirements Am 05.11.2002, 09:55 Uhr schreb christof.robert <christof.robert(a)wanadoo.fr>: > 2.700.000 hits by day, month ??? Ah, sorry, you're right. This small AMD-800MHz machine serves 2.700.000 hits per month of Zopish content and some more of misc static/CGI-stuff. 2.7 million a day would be a major breakthrough in Zoptimization I suppose. Jo. -- Internetmanufaktur Jo Meder ---------------------- Berlin, Germany http://www.meder.de/ ------------------- fon: ++49-30-417 17 63 33 Kollwitzstr. 75 ------------------------ fax: ++49-30-417 17 63 45 10435 Berlin --------------------------- mob: ++49-170- 2 98 89 97 Public GnuPG-Key ---------- http://www.meder.de/keys/jo-pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ 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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Phantom object?
by Charlie Reiman 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

I've got some dtml that I wrote not more than a few weeks ago and it has this expression: <dtml-in r_specs prefix="tbl"> Everything works great, except r_specs appears to be missing. It's working and doing it's job (mapping multiple query args into a sequence), it's just not in the ZMI anymore. I've already run a find and it doesn't seem to be anywhere. Has anyone seen this? Not my object of course. I mean has anyone seen this behavior? I've search with the find tab from root and with a find & grep on the filesystem and I can only find the references to the object. There are no external methods with this name. And where did I leave my keys? Has anyone seen my keys? I could've sworn they were in my pocket...

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RE: [Zope] Trigger/Auto ID on Gadfly DB
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Um... just be careful. This won't scale to several simultaneous requests. You might want to be concerned about duplicate keys, conflict errors, and other such problems. Have you considered a random number and a check to see if it is in the db? Sean -----Original Message----- From: Micheál Healy [mailto:michael.healy@engitech.ie] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:23 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Trigger/Auto ID on Gadfly DB Thanks - I guess I'll just do a select and increment the thing myself. Sorry about the double post. for some reason, it took ages for the original one to appear on the list. Micheál ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew T. Kromer" <matt(a)zope.com> To: "Micheál Healy" <michael.healy(a)engitech.ie> Cc: <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Trigger/Auto ID on Gadfly DB > Micheál Healy wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Is it possible to set a trigger on a gadfly database table? I would > > like to automatically generate an Id on a table each time I insert. > > In Oracle, I would create a sequence and then create a trigger on the > > table in question based on the sequence. I something similar possible > > with Gadfly? > > > > TIA, > > > > Micheál > > > Erm. > > No. > > Gadfly is a very light-weight database. It accepts SQL commands, but it > isn't a "full" database like you might think. > > I dont know if it has automatic sequence numbers -- that's your real > question. Each RDBMS tends to do automatic sequence number differently. > Oracle actually does it the most awkward way, by requiring you to set a > trigger on inserts. Most other RDBMS will let you specific an > auto-increment column some way. > > Granted, I could be wrong about Gadfly -- I only spent about 90 seconds > grepping the source for a likely auto-increment column operator. But I > do not believe Gadfly does this for you. > > -- > Matt Kromer > Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ > _______________________________________________ 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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RE: [Zope] advice needed
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Big image databases can be just that: very big (I'm used to working with media-asset management systems for newspapers, and from that perspective, I can tell you that such a beast is likely best not done as a BLOB setup). I would think this suffers from scalability problems, regardless of which table handler backend you use in MySQL. If you have Terabytes of images, you want to store them as files across many volumes, which means you want to store them on disk volumes on scalable filesystems with logical volume management and good backup procedure. BLOBs in RDBMS won't scale with your hardware and won't let you use simple UNIX maintenance and backup tools. For example, try incrementally backing up half-a-dozen InnoDB table-space files using find+cpio (hint: you can't). I would approach this with MySQL, filesystem storage for binaries, and DirectoryStorage for ZODB (especially if this was a massive DB, which image DBs usually are). Sean -----Original Message----- From: Martin Gebert [mailto:Murphy@members.netsolution-net.de] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:27 PM To: gabecker(a)indiana.edu Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] advice needed Have you thought about storing the images as BLOBs in MySQL? I must admit I lack every experience how MySQL behaves under the load of many Long Objects, but in a small scale I've made good experiences till now with that (the concerning small application will go online the next days). Concerning the access restrictions, IMHO this would be handled the easiest way by roles and (in case of externel files or ZODB storage) different folders, if your special problem admits such an architecture. Martin gabecker(a)indiana.edu schrieb: >I am relatively new to Zope, but I plan to use it for an image database >system that I need to make for scientific purposes. What I have in mind >is to store the actual images externally in files (since there will be >many and large files), and the info about the image (where collected, >owner, codes etc etc) in a database like MySQL. Zope would form the >interface. > >My first question is what would be a suitable way to go from here: use >LocalFS or ExtImage for storage of many files (think of 50,000 or so)? I >will need to be able to differentiate between users: ie not every user >should have access to all files. > >Furthermore: if there are people that have already done something similar >I would appreciate to learn from their experience. Through a web search I >haven't been able to find such projects, at least not based on Zope. > >All best, >Gabriel > > > _______________________________________________ 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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RE: [Zope] advice needed
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

On the other hand, since you have a system writing files to disk, it might be better to have a security mechanism pre-built into your framework - instead of having to roll your own from scratch like you would with PHP. Zope wins in the security department too. Here's my advice: use the CMF. Create a content type that stores the binary externally. Decorate it with simple metadata (DCMES, and potentially other) stored in the object database, and write ZSQL methods, templates, and python scripts as skin methods that for that content type. Use the identifier/path of the object as a string-based key in your RDBMS for tabular data that decorates your main object. Make the UIs and methods that view and manipulate the said data CMF actions to add onto your object. IMHO, this is a powerful hybrid-storage design idea, and I hope this is helpful? Sean -----Original Message----- From: Jim Kutter [mailto:zope-list@ebizq.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:48 PM To: gabecker(a)indiana.edu; zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] advice needed I'll probably get shot for this, but a pure filesystem and MySQL implementation is better suited for PHP. If say, you wanted to store the image info in the ZODB, and the data elsewhere, then Zope is a good solution. Another nice thing about Zope you don't get with a language like PHP is much better managability of the presentation code. If that's important, then again, Zope is the way to go. -jim ----- Original Message ----- From: <gabecker(a)indiana.edu> To: <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:24 PM Subject: [Zope] advice needed > I am relatively new to Zope, but I plan to use it for an image database > system that I need to make for scientific purposes. What I have in mind > is to store the actual images externally in files (since there will be > many and large files), and the info about the image (where collected, > owner, codes etc etc) in a database like MySQL. Zope would form the > interface. > > My first question is what would be a suitable way to go from here: use > LocalFS or ExtImage for storage of many files (think of 50,000 or so)? I > will need to be able to differentiate between users: ie not every user > should have access to all files. > > Furthermore: if there are people that have already done something similar > I would appreciate to learn from their experience. Through a web search I > haven't been able to find such projects, at least not based on Zope. > > All best, > Gabriel > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ) > _______________________________________________ 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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PS: Problem solved
by Peter Hiltner 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Dear collegues, with regard to the call for help regarding the download of Zope I got the problem fixed by using the right mouse button for downloading. Thank you prh

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Extracting Meta Tags for use in ZCatalog
by Niclas Kuehne 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi! I would like to catalog all the keywords in the meta tag of HTML Pages uploaded by the users. Is there any way to extract these and put them into ZCatalog? Does anyone have any ideas on how to do such a thing? Thanks in advance, Nic

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tal:repeat usage
by Andrew Athan 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

<span tal:define="global foo python:[{'a':1},{'a':2}]"></span> <span tal:repeat="v foo"> <span tal:content="repeat/v/a"></span> </span> The code above doesn't work. Instead, I have to replace the content= with "python:foo[repeat['v'].index]['a']" Seems silly and cumbersome. Am I doing something stupid here (like forgetting the python syntax for creating objects on the fly so I can use a list of objects instead of a list of dictionaries)? Argh. Going back and forth between JavaScript, Python, Perl and Java is killing me. aathan <Andrew Athan>

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