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Zope product with folder as base class
by Peter Bengtsson 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

When creating a container product in Python one first use ObjectManager. One can also use OFS.Folder, ZCatalog, BTreeFolder. What's the difference between these and SimpleItem? Some friendly hints and advice on the best base classes anyone? ...for a product that will act as a container for quite a few prefferably searchable objects. What I care about the most is performance and scalability. Peter

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HTML() and external methods
by Albert Ting 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

I'm creating some external methods and rather than having my python script call a dtml method, I'd prefer to have it call a HTML instance. So I've been doing something like: testHTML = HTML('''<dtml-var hello>''') def externalMethod(self): return testHTML(self,hello="albert") This seems to work as expected. However, if the externalMethod was called from a form action, and the "hello" variable was defined in the form, I'm unable to do something like: def externalMethod(self): return testHTML(self) or def externalMethod(self): return testHTML(self,REQUEST=self.REQUEST) Instead, I have to do def externalMethod(self): return testHTML(self,hello=self.REQUEST['hello']) What's the correct way to do this? Thanks, Albert

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Limit access from a user
by kent sin 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

How can I limited the number of sessions from a certain user or ip-range in a Zope Site? In a pay site, it is necessary to count the usage of user, how can it be implemented in Zope? Rgs, Kent Sin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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upgrading an old ZODB ...
by Darran Edmundson 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Pardon the repost, I'm still struggling with the following: I have two old Data.fs files, circa November 1999 and April 2000. Perhaps not surprisingly, I can't seem to use them with Zope 2.1+. ZServer fires up but both the site and the ZMI of the site give the following traceback: Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. AttributeError Traceback (innermost last): File C:\ZOPE\OSCWEB\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module File C:\ZOPE\OSCWEB\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 187, in publish File C:\ZOPE\OSCWEB\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) File C:\ZOPE\OSCWEB\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 162, in publish File C:\ZOPE\OSCWEB\lib\python\ZPublisher\BaseRequest.py, line 444, in traverse File C:\ZOPE\OSCWEB\lib\python\ZPublisher\BaseRequest.py, line 520, in old_validation (Object: broken) AttributeError: __getitem__ I can imagine that some external products might be missing, but I wouldn't think this would stop the ZMI from displaying properly? The first four bytes of the file are FS21 - this wouldn't be a magic number by chance? Any advice on how to get this data into a modern ZODB? Cheers, Darran.

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2.3.2 -> 2.4.0 Mostly ok so far ... but ...
by Bill Anderson 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

OK, after makign backups (of course!) .. I tried to upgrade from 2.3.2 to 2.4.0 by changing my pythonhome variable to the new source (love that INSTANCE_HOME!). It seems to be going mostly OK, except this problem: 2001-07-24T19:31:03 PROBLEM(100) Script (Python) Object "add_weeklyRep" needs to be recompiled. How in the world can I accomplish this?? Everything appears to work, but I would like this PROBLEM to go bye-bye. Bill Anderson (This address is not on the list, so a CC would be appreciated)

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install problem mailing list?
by Kristopher Yates 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi, I am running the latest FreeBSD4.3-STABLE and just installed the port of Zope. zope/Zope2.3.3 and zope/Hotfix_2001-05-01 I see it running by doing a "ps -ax", actually two copies, one as root and one as nobody: "/usr/loca/bin/python2.1 /usr/local/www/Zope/z2.py -D" First of all, I can find no docs on why two copies are running. Also, I get "Unable to connect..." to http://localhost:8080/manage. I thought Zope was supposed to run by itself, seperate of Apache? Just FYI, I killall httpd and restarted everything to see if Zope would run standalong without apache. I know that you guys are working on revamping the docs. It is greatly appreciated. In the meantime, is there an install problem list I can subscribe to? I can't find one. So should I post install problems here? Let me know what's up. Your whole organization's configuration is awefully confusing, not to mention the docs themselves. I hope you can understand my newbie frustration with your stuff and can provide a link to some info that could help me figure out why I followed the instructions, got Zope installed, but cannot connect to it to do anything with it. Any help appreciated for this lost zope soul. regards, Kris

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Programatically set permissions and local access?
by Chris Bruce 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Is there a way programatically in DTML to set permissions of a Folder and to assign local users and roles? I looked through the Zope book and online help, but did not see anything that talked about setting local permissions on a Folder. Any help would be great. Thanks, Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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I hate counters...
by marc lindahl 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

...but I was loading a (really) old site which used them so I needed the functionality. Andym's FScounter has a good feature set but it was missing the ability to set the counter to an arbitrary value (to pick up from where the old site left off). So I modified andy's counter (http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/FScounter) to do that, and I included a default digit set, with a .zexp to make it easy to install.

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Is My Installation Flawed?
by Ben Ocean 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi; I wrote the list earlier concerning this problem and didn't get an answer. That usually means it's a BIG problem and unique to my install and that nobody has any idea what to do without being on the system. I hope like heck it's not that bad. Here's the problem: For some reason I don't appear able to create user-defined roles at all! With regard to local roles, I'm able to create them, but they don't appear to have any effect. For example, if I create a local role for pnl as manager then change the *access content information* from the acquired setting to just manager and owner (as opposed to anonymous), then try to access the page, I discover that only user webmaster, the owner, is able to access the page. Nor can I change ownership! How should I begin trouble-shooting this? TIA, BenO

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weird permission trouble on acl_users on 2.3.3
by Didier Georgieff 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hello, Some weird problem (reproductible) on acl_users. 1 - create a test role (TESTROLE) with ALL the permissions (equivalent to manager). 2 - Create a user on the root acl_users (called TEST with the TESTROLE). The symptom : A - log with MANAGER role, you have access to all acl_users tabs (including CONTENTS where you can add users) B - log as TEST with TESTROLE role, you have access to all acl_users tabs EXCLUDING CONTENTS and you can't add users) This is also true in acl_users folder within sub-folders. Done on a fresh 2.3.3 (and CookieCrumbler). Problem also on a 2.3.2. Is it me ?? -- Didier Georgieff Chef de projet technique SIT du Bas-Rhin tél : 03.88.76.78.35 - fax : 03.88.76.78.34 email : didier.georgieff(a)agriculture.gouv.fr SIT du Bas-Rhin : http://www.bas-rhin.sit.gouv.fr Direction Régionale et Départementale de l'Agriculture et de la Forêt Cité Administrative - 14, rue du Maréchal Juin 67084 Strasbourg Cedex

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