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Newbie zope site architecture question
by Steven Turoff 20 Oct '01

20 Oct '01

Greetings, I am building an extranet for customers using Zope. Being new to Zope, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to organize this. Here are the basic requirements: 1) All content is private - every customer must have a username and password. 2) After login, the customer is taken to their section. The basic format and design of each customer's section is the same. For the purposes of this email, let's assume that each customer has the following sections: a) projects - a place where I can post information (html pages, Word documents, Excel documents, ...) pertaining to each project that I am working on for the customer. A customer may have multiple projects going on, each of which has a set of documents associated with it. b) schedule - a place where I can post a schedule for the customer c) documents - a place where the customer and I can both post documents 3) Adding new sections, for example, 'news', should not cause any problems with old customers. For example, if I have thirty existing customers that each have the three sections listed above, and then I decide that I want to add a 'news' section, I should not have to add thirty zope folders to accomodate the existing customers (or there should be an easy way of doing this.) 4) Adding new customers should be easy 5) Customers have view access to everything in their section, and write access to certain parts. 6) There will be some generic sections (for example, Annoucements) where the information is the same for all clients. I have a good idea of how I would build this using other technologies (e.g., jsp and mySQL), but am not sure how to organize it using Zope. Should I create folders for each customer, folders for each section, or both? Should I put the actual data for each customer into a relational database and retrieve it from there? I've read the Zope Book and am confident that I can figure out a good way of accomplishing all of this, but I would like to benefit from other's experience, if possible. Any help would be much appreciated. Steve

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1010 WINS Web site
by Albert Boulanger 20 Oct '01

20 Oct '01

For those of you tracking web sites using Zope, include www.1010wins.com, the 1010 AM News Radio Station for the NYC area. I just noticed the Zope logo on the main page, cool! FYI, Albert Boulanger vPatch Technologies aboulanger(a)vpatch.com

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Re: using ImageTag_Hotfix
by marc lindahl 20 Oct '01

20 Oct '01

Hi John, I'm cc'ing this back to the list... > Hi, I have been using the thumbnail hotfix and am having trouble > getting the functions to use cacheable thumbnails. I put what I *think* is the right stuff to let the thumbs be cacheable by a RAMcache, but so far my cries for help on the subject, and documentation for how to take advantage of RAMcache, have been unanswered, so I don't know if that works. But the http tags for letting the client browser cache the images are working. > > I have been reading __init__.py to get some understanding of how to > use this code. Currently, I have a simple DTML script to iterate over > a Folder and make thumbnails of each image in the folder with links to > the original. I'll paste the relevant code from my CMFPhotoAlbum product, which I know works: <dtml-in "objectItems(['Image','Portal Image'])" sort=id size=qsize start=qstart> <dtml-if "(_['sequence-index']%5)==0"> </tr> <tr> </dtml-if> <td valign=bottom align=center> <a href="<dtml-var "_['sequence-key']+'/viewimg?img='+_['sequence-key']">"> <dtml-var "title_or_id()"><br> <dtml-with stylesheet_properties> <dtml-var "tag(width=80, height='',border=2, style='border-color:' + base_font_color + ';background-color:' + base_font_color)"> </dtml-with> </a> </td> </dtml-in> > If I read this correctly, this is *not* using the function 'thumb' > that is defined in __init__.py, but is using the browser to resize the > images. The problem with this, of course, is that if you have a lot > of images and want to frequently reload the page, it can be slow. ...exactly why I made this product! > > I that source code for 'tag' used the logic 'if height and width are > integers call thumb, e that's correct. >lse use the height and width attributes of > html'. The function 'thumb' calls: > > thumbnail_file = self.ZCacheable_get(view_name='thumb', keywords=keys) > > so it appears to me that this is thumbnail cacheing, which is the > behavior I want. this is the stuff to use an external RAMcache. The idea is that you would have one RAMcache on your site to cache your calculated thumbnails. Architecturally, that's usually what you'd want. The part I dont' know is, how could you get any newly created image to connect to this RAMCache automatically? Right now, it seems to work if you create the image and the RAMcache and associate it manually via the ZMI, but what a pain! I wish I knew how to do this within the product - e.g. associate the 'class' with the RAMcache.... > > My question is: how should I code the DTML so I can get the thumbnail > cacheing? I tried manually setting height and width to integer values > but this did not help: > > <dtml-var "this().tag(40,60)"></a> > > Is this because '40' and '60' here are not really integers but strings > by the time they get passed to 'tag'? > > Ideally, I would like to generated scaled, cached thumbnails. one thing you can try is naming the attributes? tag(height=60,width=40), something like that.... You can see in the source that index_html generates the cacheable http headers, which will activate downstream caches.... it might even help a downstream Squid -- if anyone knows for sure, or has suggestions in that area, let me know! Marc

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System DateTime issue - redux
by complaw＠hal-pc.org 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

This is a subject that has come up on the list before, but never got a resolution. Evidently (at least on Linux systems), Zope takes the Universal Date/Time (UDT) rather than the Local Date/Time (LDT). Consequently, if you use ZopeTime(), you have to make a correction (-5 hours if you are in America/Chicago CDT). This is a wish list, I know, but for Zope 2.4.3, could there be a switch or flag that can be set that says ZopeTime() will get the local time instead of universal time? That or use something like LocalTime() and thus leave ZopeTime() alone? Note, in your Python scripts, you can... from time import time, localtime .. but not in DTML, where the code for displaying time normally resides. This isn't a trivial subject. If you have a product that displays the time (as some templates do for newbies or site developers) they don't know enough to fiddle with the code to get the time displayed correctly if they happen to live in a time zone other than the Product's author (meaning, the vast majority of the planet). Ron ./.

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Images within Structured Text
by brian.r.brinegar.1 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Is there a way to include an image within a structured text document. It doesn't seem there would be. However I would like to know for sure. --Brian Brinegar ECN Web Technician MSEE 104 A 494-3106 http://www.geeksoft.net/

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ZCatalog searching more than one field at once
by Timothy Wilson 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Hi everyone, I've built a little ZClass and a ZCatalog to catalog the instances. Among other things, this ZClass has fields called 'title' and 'description'. I've created indexes (text indexes) for each in my Catalog. I want to make an advanced search form that would allow someone to type some keywords and search the Catalog. Is it possible to search for the same keywords in two different fields? In other words, I want the user to see one keyword search box and use their input to search two different ZCatalog indexes. The Zope Book describes how to do this from a Python Script, but how would I do it from a regular HTML form? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson(a)visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com

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title property/function
by Laurie Nason 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

OK guys - here's the problem.... I have a number of ZClasses, each one has a title property that is actually a function and pulls information from other properties of the ZClass. I want to use this property to sort my tree object. So being the python genius that I am not - I have created a python script to return the branches in the correct order sorted by title. # This is the code that returns objects for the tree view con=context return_object=[] for obj in con.objectValues(['Folder','Group', 'Project', 'Micrograph', 'Microscopy', 'Scan', 'Purification', 'Aliquot', 'Freezing', 'Progress', 'Publication', 'Reference', 'Reconstruction', 'Structure', 'CCD']): return_object.append(obj) return_object.sort(lambda a,b:a.title<b.title) return return_object However, this code does not evaluate the title - but simply returns the dtml-if statement and sorts on that.... not what I want! Any ideas? Laurie Laurie Nason Baylor College of Medicine Houston TX USA

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RE: [Zope] Enqiures
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Zope is an application server and web-development platform; I think you are comparing apples to oranges. Zope does have lots of docs on the main site in the documentation section; consider getting a copy of the Zope Book, which is published by New Riders... Zope runs on fairly minimal hardware, but if you have high-traffic to it or lots of content, bigger is always better. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Benny Chua [mailto:benny2010@email.com] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:06 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] Enqiures Hi, Is there a installation guide? How stable compare to a Red Hat OS Web Server? Any minimium hardware requirement? Thanks Benny -- _______________________________________________ Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143 _______________________________________________ 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] Images and Acquisition
by marc lindahl 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

> From: "Tommy Johnson" <tommy(a)7x.com> > > Actually, I did that when I first started with zope, but have come to use > the other way. First, it allows me to drop the extension (which isn't > needed) and second, I don't have to specify an absolute path. Actually, it works with no extension or any extension, and you don't have to specify an absolute path in your DTML/HTML - the browser constructs it, which is nice for caching. > > Also, you can't use the power of acquistion when you do it the first way. Why not? It works for me... > That can be a major pain when you have different logos for different > sections of your site. First, you gotta name all the images different names > (even though they are logos - why can't 'logo' do?) and second, you have to > add code to distinguish where you are (what section) in order to display the > correct logo. > > That's not as elegant as simply saying <dtml-var Image_logo> If you say <img src="Image_logo"> then the browser requests /folder/folder/folder/Image_logo -- if it doesn't exist, then Zope traverses up until it finds one...

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Enqiures
by Benny Chua 19 Oct '01

19 Oct '01

Hi, Is there a installation guide? How stable compare to a Red Hat OS Web Server? Any minimium hardware requirement? Thanks Benny -- _______________________________________________ Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143

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