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abandonware and new.zope.org
by Milos Prudek 02 May '02

02 May '02

An idea for new.zope.org: encourage people not to abandon popular projects. Even very useful and well know Zope products get abandoned. Consider LoginManager. Both SourceForge and Freshmeat introduced rating according to "activity", which is probably the frequency of releases. This may not work 100% (some people may prefer to download software with lower frequency of releases as it may be deemed more stable) but it's a start. A more drastical approach would be tagging products that have not had a release in six months as "abandoned" in red typeface. Such products would stand out in a list of products, perhaps forcing the author to come out and say whether the product is doscontinued, but it would definitely make users better informed about the product status. Another approach would be to mark products "may be abandoned" if no release was published in six months, and "abandoned" if no release in 12 months. Just my idea. Propose something softer or harder, but IMHO some solution should be implemented. -- Milos Prudek

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image attributes
by Russell Uman 01 May '02

01 May '02

i'm trying to set the border attribute of an image tag like so: <img tal:replace="structure container/images/image.gif" tal:attributes="border string:1"> i get the following error when i load the page Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: Context instance has no attribute 'getCompilerError' how can i add the border attribute to an image?

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VHM and ProxyPass
by Matt Gregory 01 May '02

01 May '02

I am having a lot of trouble getting apache to work with zope and VHM. I have followed the howto, but the virtual host just hangs when I go to it... It doesn't appear to be a zope problem, as the virtual host seems fine. Still, I am currious if anyone knows anything about using proxypass with zope to make that work.

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setting properties for multiple objects
by Russell Uman 01 May '02

01 May '02

is there any way with a vanilla zope 2.5.1 install to set a property for multiple objects at the same time? (say, all objects in a directory?) is there a zope product that does something this? thanks!

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Re: [Zope] checking permissions
by Dieter Maurer 01 May '02

01 May '02

A M Thomas writes: > Thanks, Dieter! This looks like exactly what I want. Documented in the > Zope book and everything. > > Of course, I'm trying to use it in a python script - tried > context.SecurityValidateValue(stuff) - and it's giving me an attribute > error, but I'm struggling with the flu and it could be anything. It is very unfortunate (and unnecessary) that DTML and Python Script use different security API's. Please file a feature request to the Collector. In Python Scripts, you would use: from AccessControl import getSecurityManager getSecurityManager().validateValue(value) In fact, that's what "SecurityValidateValue" does... Dieter

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Form Data Needed in Second Form
by Dan Shafer 01 May '02

01 May '02

I have part of a Zope app written largely as Python scripts linking DTML forms that looks conceptually like this: 1. Form A gathers data and then as its action invokes a Python script. 2. Python Script 1 creates a new DTML document and updates its contents based on field data in Form 1. 3. Python Script 1 then uses RESPONSE.redirect() to open a second DTML form, Form 2. 4. Form 2 needs the name of the document Python Script 1 created as well as access to some or all of the data in the fields in Form 1. What is the best/right/only way to accomplish this goal? Seems like it should be straight-forward but I've played with several promising ideas that turned out to be dead ends. I'm getting a bit desperate. All help appreciated!

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tal:repeat
by Tom Nixon 01 May '02

01 May '02

I am using this code to generate a navigation bar. I need to have a different bgcolor attribute on the td if we're already in that folder. In other words, I need to do tal:attributes="bgcolor string:red" but only where folder == here. The condition only applies to the bgcolor attribute so I'm not sure where it goes. Any ideas? <table> <tr tal:define="subfolders python:container.objectValues('Folder')"> <td tal:repeat="folder subfolders" bgcolor="yellow"> <span tal:replace="folder/title">Title</span> </td> </tr> </table>

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ZSyncer abandoned?
by Milos Prudek 01 May '02

01 May '02

Does anyone know current email of ZSyncer's author? I've been trying to reach him at andy(a)agmweb.ca for two weeks with an error report. -- Milos Prudek

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zope page templates and image tags. tal:attributes:
by Russell Uman 01 May '02

01 May '02

hi. i'm trying to call an image and set the attributes of the image tag dynamically. <span tal:replace="structure container/images/image.gif" tal:attributes="border string:1"></span><br> <img tal:replace="structure container/images/image.gif" tal:attributes="border string:1"><br> in each case i get an error: Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: Context instance has no attribute 'getCompilerError' so instead i am building my images like this: <img src=nothing.gif tal:attributes="src string:images/image.gif; border string:1"> this seems kind of painful to me. can someone explain the error i am receiving and give me a clue about how to do this the right way in zope? should i give up on page templates and use dtml instead? pointers to useful documentation would be greatly appreciated. i've read the zope book up and down but clearly i need more fine manuals to read... thanks!

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Re: [Zope] Maybe non-Zope issue: SQL Server doesn't return tablefield completely
by Dirk Van.Laanen 01 May '02

01 May '02

Hallo Jon, >Do you have physical access to the SQL Server? If so, run one of the >SQL Server native utilities to browse the table and verify the integrity >of the "term" field. IIRC, for SQL Server 6.5 you could use the >"Enterprise Manager" or a utility named "isqlw" to query a database. >Most likely the field was somehow truncated during the transfer. Yes, I could examine the field in SQL Server. It is obvious the field wasn't truncated. It seemed a sound suggestion though. Someone has suggested a corrupt (SQL Server) driver could be responsible for bad transmission of correct data to Zope, though I wouldn't know what action that would require (or how to establish that for a fact). Thanks for your help, cheers, Dirk >>> Jon Erickson <jon.erickson(a)neicoltech.org> 05/01/02 04:14pm >>> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 08:50, Dirk Van.Laanen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a table with a field 'term' which is a text field, thus up to 255 characters. > The table was originally an Access database. For reasons of company policy, > this database has been transported to an SQL Server 6.5 database. The old > Access database, however, still exists, on the same server als SQL Server. > > If I make a Z ODBC database connection to SQL Server, and perform a ZSQL > query on the field 'term', only about 120 characters of the field 'term' are represented. > If I use the Z ODBC database connection to the Access Database (with exactly the same > data), I get the complete field returned after a query. > > Does this ring a bell with anybody? Is it just an issue with SQL Server or does Zope > maybe play a part in it? Jon

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