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Desperate for some help with <dtml-tree> tag
by Aseem Mohanty 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi, I have a LocalFS product on my web site, and I want ppl to be able to see the file hierarchy as a tree structure (one provided by <dtml-tree>) however when I use the dtml-tree tag in the following fashion (which I got after a lot of trial and error when things didnt work: refer to previous post about a week(could be slighltly older) back re:LocalFS and <dtml-tree>): <dtml-tree name=tree_root branches_expr="fileValues()" id="fileIds"> <dtml-var getId> </dtml-tree> where tree_root is the name of the folder (in LocalFS... e.g. 'local_fs_instance['folder_name']) I want. This produces some really wierd behavior like single clicks not expanding the nodes. When and if I do expand the nodes it contians the entire current structure which again expands and collapses erratically and so on and so forth. If anybody has ever used the tree tag with LocalFS I will be really really really grateful for any pointers as to what I am doing wrong? or what I should be doing?? or what I shoudl not be doing?? My understanding of the LocalFS (after perusing the source) is that since it provides the tpvalues and tpids interfaces, I should not have to do anything fancy if all I want is a list of folders and subfolders (at the very least), so what am I missing here?? TIA AM -- ================================================================== Aseem Mohanty Neurobehavioral Systems Inc, 828 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706 (R) 510 7696011 (M) 510 3014871 (O) 510 5279231 ================================================================== "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there!!" -- Steve Gonedes ==================================================================

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exec?? issue
by Greg Conway 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi all, I've got a problem evaluating a variable which I don't know how to go about solving... Consider the following code: Counter=0 for GetDoc in context.DisplayCustomerSQL(SelectCID=TestCID): print "Customer name is %s %s" % (GetDoc.FirstName, GetDoc.LastName) for FieldCount in FieldName: ExecField = "GetDoc."+FieldName[Counter] print "value of field %s is %s" % (FieldCount, ExecField) Counter=Counter+1 (yes I realise there are probably tidier ways to do this - especially the counter bit! - but hey I am learning!! albeit bad habits.... :) Prior to this the python script scans a database record, and stores a string of field names (represented with the record as [Field1], [Field2], etc). So, by the time the script above gets to the second-from-last line, the var ExecField contains something like GetDoc.Field1 or GetDoc.Field2. As you've probably guessed by now, I want to display the literal value of ExecField, instead than the word "ExecField" at this stage.... I'm not python programmer, but having scanned my copy of "learing Python" thoroughly, I reckon I'd use the "exec" command to do this. Except I'm not in Python, I'm in Zope. And using 'exec ExecField' doesn't work. Nor does "_.exec" which has helped me before in these cases!! I seem to remember reading somewhere that exec and eval were considered too powerful and had been removed in Zope's python - now it seems that is definately the case!! So, does anybody have any idea how I might solve my dilemma...?? (which, by the way, I've arrived at by giving up on trying to Mail Merge Zope with Word, and instead I'm now trying to build the entire docs to be Mail Merged in Zope!!!) many thanks for any help! Regards, Greg Conway. This electronic transmission and any files attached to it are strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, you must not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance of this transmission. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us by return and delete the same. Further enquiries/returns can be posted to postmaster(a)gmlnt.com Thank you.

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ZPT Newbie Question
by Jose Gerardo Amaya Giron 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hello all, I'm starting to learn ZPT in Zope and I have a question. Can I make ZPT includes in my templates, like I can include dtml . I want to use some template code in all the rest of the templates in my application, is there a way to include this or I need to copy the code in every document? Also like in php when you include a php document to use it in several php documents. thanks in advance Gerardo Amaya

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Problem with ZTUtils
by zope 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi Chris, <p metal:define-macro="zptmac_clientslist">test</p> # Iam defining a macro to get the values from a pyhton script <span tal:define="global list_clients python:container.learning.oms_client.pget_clients"> #i have defined a variable called list_clients to store the values from the recordset which is stored in the pythonscript (pget_vlients) 1.00 </span> <table tal:define="results list_clients; #--I am using the newly defined variable list_clients and puting it through a loop to print out the values start request/start|python:0; batch python:modules['ZTUtils'].Batch(results, # Here i am having the problem that i have to give a number for size in ZTUtils else it show me an error Error Type: TALESError Error Value: exceptions.TypeError on __init__() takes at least 3 non-keyword arguments (2 given) in "", size=15, start=start)"><tr> How can i get a value of the number of records in the record set dynamically So that i dont have to specify the size explicitly when i am coding.Since i may not be knwing the size. PLeasehelp me out .I hope my mail with the comments has clearly explained the problem.If there is someone going through such a phase of development could u please spare some time to help me out. Regards John Kunchandy --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 7/24/2002

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Re: [Zope] Adding instance of ZDiscussions programmatically
by Dennis Allison 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

> Dennis Allison writes: > > Chris pointed out my initial question was pretty vague and my response to him was > > not much better. Here's a more specific statement-- > > > > I want to add instances of ZDTopics (that is ZDiscussion Topics) programmatically. > > > > I've constructed a DTML Method per the How-To: > > ... > > <dtml-with "manage_addProduct['ZDTopic']"> > > .... > > | Error Type: AttributeError > > | Error Value: ZDTopic > > ... > > | File /var/zope/lib/python/App/Product.py, line 66, in _product > > | (Object: Products) > > | AttributeError: (see above) > Are you sure, the product is "ZDTopic" and not "ZDiscussion"? > As the last few traceback lines show, the problem comes from > product resolution. > You are right, of course, brought on by the fact that the create tab is for creating a "ZDiscussions Topic". Unfortunately, I still have a problem. using Python rather than DTML, I wrote container.manage_addProduct['ZDiscussions'] which gives me the dispatcher object as I would have expected. Now, the ZDiscussions product a ZClass with python base classes (ZDBase). The inheritances seem to be correct, but when I write container.manage_addProduct['ZDiscussions'].manage_addZDTopic( id, title= ... ) I get: Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: manage_addZDTopic Traceback (innermost last): File /var/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 150, in publish_module File /var/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 114, in publish File /var/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 159, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: footest) File /var/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in publish File /var/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 88, in mapply (Object: pyc2) File /var/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 39, in call_object (Object: pyc2) File /var/zope/lib/python/Shared/DC/Scripts/Bindings.py, line 252, in __call__ (Object: pyc2) File /var/zope/lib/python/Shared/DC/Scripts/Bindings.py, line 283, in _bindAndExec (Object: pyc2) File /var/zope/lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/PythonScript.py, line 302, in _exec (Object: pyc2) (Info: ({'script': <PythonScript instance at 932bb58>, 'context': <Folder instance at 8f75a78>, 'container': <Folder instance at 8f75a78>, 'traverse_subpath': []}, (), {}, None)) File Script (Python), line 6, in pyc2 File /var/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/ZopeGuards.py, line 47, in guarded_getattr AttributeError: (see above) which has me baffled. I have looked at the code in ZDBase and the manageZDTopic() method is there. The form manage_add in the Control_Panel/Products begins for the product is  What does this translate to in terms of a python script. Clearly there is something more going on here... container.manage_addProduct['ZDiscussions'].ZDTopic.createInObjectManager(container.REQUEST['id'], container.REQUEST) seems to do the job. Thanks for your help.

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Announcing Narya Zope/MySQL Forum (1.0 pre-alpha)
by Terry Hancock 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Narya, a Zope/MySQL based Web Forum from Anansi Spaceworks ----------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the first publicly available version ("1.0 pre-alpha") of our Forum product, "Narya", which is now available in the CVS at our SourceForge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/spacelift Our own deployed instance may also be seen online at: http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Narya Mission Statement ----------------- Narya is meant to meet the goals proposed by the Spacelift project -- to establish a collaborative environment for an open-source based approach to space development projects (but the software may be equally applied to many other tasks: software/hardware technological developments, artwork, fiction, and other humanities, etc -- anywhere where a highly-interactive community wants to work collaboratively on projects). After examining several different technologies and design paradigms, as well as online user behavior, we made the decisions that Narya should be: 1) Centered on a "Web Forum" paradigm. Most of the "human-factors" work is based on this model. 2) Based on Zope/Python. In particular, we want to restrict code to a small set of languages, with an emphasis on Python. This is to facilitate making Narya easy to train developers for. 3) Have a concept of "ephimeral" posts and "permanent" contributions. 4) Have a strong focus on graphics support. This is something of a departure from earlier analysis in which we proposed adapting the existing Sourceforge software, but we are now committed to the Zope-based approach which has allowed very rapid prototyping. The design strategy is to 1) Replicate basic PHP/MySQL forum functionality. 2) Clean up performance issues, to make Narya truly competitive with PHP/MySQL forums. 3) Build up the collaborative contribution types and establish a standard procedure for converting Zope products to Narya contributions (PlugIns). 4) Provide word-processing, graphics, and CAD support and Java-based client-side contribution editing tools. We hope to meet most of these goals by sometime in 2003. Current Status -------------- Clearly Narya does not yet achieve all of our goals -- contributions support is still very primitive, and awaits considerable code rationalization to make it easily extensible (which it clearly must become). However, in its present incarnation, Narya is a functional web forum, using a MySQL store for posts, much like existing PHP/MySQL forums, but with a Zope/Python-product front end. The main distinction is the existence of multiple Topic "Views" in addition to the discussion forum view, which will seem very familiar to users experienced with PHP MySQL forums. Narya also has a more complex model of "user scoring" which goes beyond simply counting posts. Current Issues -------------- Narya is "pre-alpha" and has a number of outstanding issues, for which we'd like to solicit help from anyone interested: * Image resizing ("VarImage"), is handled clumsily, both in terms of accurately handling anti-aliasing and transparency, and in the way images are cached. See: VarImage.py and narya_image_ops.py and comments therein. Actually, there are two complete implementations -- one using PIL and one using ImageMagick. Thus the results of the two can be directly compared. We probably will move towards PIL, since anti-aliasing is now supported in version 1.1.3, but it still appears necessary to use ImageMagick as a fallback. * Installation is still very complicated and not well-enough documented, since we've only done it a few times ourselves. The hardest part is installing all the pre-requisites. We would like to talk to you if you are trying to install the software, and will be glad to answer questions. The results will be incorporated into the INSTALL documents. * Moderator and administrator interfaces are still very incomplete. * Contributions are not separated well. It has been suggested that we should convert to the ZPatterns' PlugIns model to handle these, and we'd like to follow that up. * The code needs some rationalization -- some modules may be extraneous, others perhaps need to be split. Mostly this is for the sake of clarity to potential developers. Contact ------- This is an open source project, and we would appreciate your help and advice. Discussion of Narya is encouraged on the Spacelift list: mailto:spacelift-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net or you can contact us directly at: mailto:narya@anansispaceworks.com You can also discuss Narya on our Narya forum itself: http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Narya/Forum Thank You! Terry Hancock and Rosalyn Hunter Anansi Spaceworks -- ------------------------------------------------------ Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com P.O. Box 60583 Pasadena, CA 91116-6583 ------------------------------------------------------

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making XRON work on win32...
by Sreekanth S Rameshaiah 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi all, Greetings !!! Has anybody made XRON work on windows? I have installed XRON product as per the instructions given in README.txt but I am unable to trigger the XRON automatically. But using the trigger tab i am able to get my scheduled task done. Any suggestions? Regards, - sree

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Stupid ZClass question
by Chris Hall 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Running Zope 2.5 on Mandrake 7 something, Python 2.1.1. I've spent literally most of the night trying to get this to work (the birds are outside are starting to sing), and most of *that* time was searching/browsing the Zope-related mailing lists, books, whatever I could get Google to suggest - I've seen a couple 'almosts', but I *know* I must be doing something wrong. Anyway: I'm defined to Zope as a 'manager', 'admin', etc. I've created a product folder, let's call it 'Exhibits', and inside that I've created a ZClass, let's call it 'ZooExhibit'. (Real names, BTW, following along with Zope Book - hardcopy, even). I do everything 'by the book'. Several times, over and over. I can create DTML methods, Formulator forms, ZSQLMethods, etc., and play with them to my heart's content, get them to all work together nicely, but can't seem to get started with even the simplest ZClass. I have a folder under the root folder, 'chris_play'. I select add 'ZooExhibit', get the add screen, supply an id 'Gorilla', and click 'Add'. Even if I try this in the product folder, or in a folder under the product folder (shouldn't the sub-folder's namespace stack include the parent folder's objects as well?). *Everytime*, the next thing I see is: *NameError* Sorry, a site error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 150, in publish_module File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 114, in publish File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 158, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: ZooExhibit_factory) File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in publish File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 88, in mapply (Object: ZooExhibit_add) File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 39, in call_object (Object: ZooExhibit_add) File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 127, in __call__ (Object: ZooExhibit_add) File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 473, in __call__ (Object: ZooExhibit_add) File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 61, in render (Object: ZooExhibit.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)) File /usr/local/src/Zope/Zope25/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 159, in eval (Object: ZooExhibit.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)) (Info: REQUEST) File <string>, line 2, in f NameError: global name 'ZooExhibit' is not defined Makes writing a Python Product look more attractive, especially after reading some of posts comparing ZClasses to Python Products. TIA, Chris Hall (More than slightly frustrated) Budding Zopista -- One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the database bind them, In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie.

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CMF News & RSS
by Marcus Schopen 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi, what's a good way to publish zope.org's news on a own CMF portal? Which product should I use? Thanks, Marcus

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Obj created in ExtMethod give "not allowed to use in this context"
by Joel Burton 28 Jul '02

28 Jul '02

Dear all: I have an External Method that creates a Formulator BasicForm on the fly and returns it to a calling PageTemplate: from Products.Formulator import Form def make_form(self, origform, addlist): """Make form on the fly""" nf = Form.BasicForm() nf.add_fields( [ field for field in origform.get_fields() if field.getId() in addlist ] ) return nf This seems to work fine -- If I run the ExternalMethod, it returns a <Formulator.BasicForm> object. My ZPT calls this using tal:define, and sets it to a variable: <div tal:define="form python:here.MakeForm(here.LuachServiceListingForm, here.AddList());"> This runs without error. However, if I try to call any of the usual method calls on the new form object, I get the error that "You are not allowed to access get_groups in this context" (get_groups is a standard method for a Formulator form). (Alternatively: the goal of all this is to be able to have one Formulator form with many widgets defined, only some of which are needed for particular forms. Rather than maintaining 15 different Formulator form objects with largely overlapping stuff--ick--I'm hoping to use this technique to create a Just-In-Time Formulator form and use that. If anyone can think of a better way to do this, that would be great.) I'm under a bit of time pressure here, so as much as I normally like to explore my way to a solution, I'd appreciate a good nudge in the right direction ASAP. Thanks! - J. -- Joel BURTON | joel@joelburton | www.joelburton.com | aim:wjoelburton Information Technology & Knowledge Management Consultant

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