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ExtFile and TextIndexNG issues
by Palermo, Tom 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

All, Last week I posted this: >> I've got a site with a couple hundred ExtFile objects. I now need to >> index the content of the various files (word, pdf, excel, ppt). >> I see that ExtFile doesn't have a PrincipiaSearchSource method so I >> created one. It returns self.index_html(). When I go back into my >> catalog and reindex my PrincipiaSearchSource index (a textindexng >> index), clicking the "Reindex" button opens the ExtFile I'm trying to >> index. Is there something more to the process of trying to index >> ExtFiles with TextIndexNG. I've googled around and tried a few things >> but either they don't work or I get the same results I've just >> described. Any ideas? I've since deleted the PrincipiaSearchSource method from the ExtFile.py file. If my catalog has no TextIndexNG indexes, I can use the Find Objects tab to find and catalog ExtFile objects. If I add a TextIndexNG index named "PrincipiaSearchSource" and click either the "Find and Catalog" button under the "Find Objects" tab or the "Update Catalog" button under the "Advanced" tab, they both return the rendered ExtFile (a pdf file in this case) to the browser. I'm not clear as to what is causing this. I don't think it's ExtFile since it doesn't even have a PrincipiaSearchSource method at this point. I haven't tried upgrading to ExtFile 1.5 from the svn trunk yet but I really don't think that's the problem. I'm going to try that next (upgrading to ExtFile 1.5). Does anyone have any ideas about what would cause the ExtFile to launch instead of just get catalogged? Thanks, Tom

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Summary variables is removed in version 2.9?
by Infor Gates 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Dear Zopist I have upgraded my Zope 2.8.x to Zope 2.9.0. I have used the <dtml-in> sequence which uses the summary variables (e.g. total-count). It works well in 2.8. However, when I ported the same <dmtl-in> sequence, the summary variables are not shown. There is no error message too. I have checked the documentation (in Zope Help) and others, but there is no hint of the above. Have anyone have similar experiences? Thank you for your time. CY --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Zope + Apache + mod_proxy + SiteRoot = some links not proxied?
by Alain Fauconnet 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hello readers, I've spent quite some time looking around for the "right" procedure to integrate Zope and Apache. I use mod_proxy as described in a number of places, especially: http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver I've followed the instructions step by step and it "mostly" works, meaning that *some* links do not work: - the "... folder at /..." link at the top of the main frame in ZMI - the top-right menu (quick start, prefs, logout) in ZMI - the ZMI link in the home (quick start) page - ... These links do not get rewritten to get "/zope" prepended to the local path part, so they give an error 404. All other links work, though, so I think that my setup is "almost" right. Am I missing something? I have created the SiteRoot object in the root (/) folder. Is this correct? Base is "http://my-server.my-domain.com/zope" Path is "/" To somewhat work around this problem, I have had to add a bunch of extra ProxyPass statements in Apache's configuration, like: ProxyPass /manage_page_style.css http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/manage_page_style.css ProxyPass /manage_workspace http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/manage_workspace ProxyPass /manage_zmi_logout http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/manage_zmi_logout ProxyPass /manage_zmi_prefs http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/manage_zmi_prefs ProxyPass /zope_quick_start http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/zope_quick_start ProxyPass /manage http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/manage ProxyPass /HelpSys http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/HelpSys ProxyPass /Examples http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/Examples ProxyPass /manage_importObject http://my-server.my-domain.com:8080/manage_importObject This is probably not the right approach, but I can't find what is wrong in my setup. Thanks in advance for any help, Greets, _Alain_ -- Alain Fauconnet IT Technical Manager Asian Institute of Technology

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Secure Mailhost timing out
by lists＠unep.net 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

all of a sudden my Secure mailhost rfuses to connect to my postfix: Unable to send mail: The read operation timed out traceback: Module Products.SecureMailHost.SecureMailHost, line 173, in send Module Products.MailHost.MailHost, line 144, in send Module Products.SecureMailHost.SecureMailHost, line 282, in _send Module Products.SecureMailHost.mail, line 106, in send Module smtplib, line 390, in ehlo Module smtplib, line 344, in getreply Module smtplib, line 159, in readline sslerror: The read operation timed out and in the postfix log: Apr 10 17:49:45 www.example.net <info> postfix/smtpd[13667]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Apr 10 17:49:55 www.example.net <info> postfix/smtpd[13667]: lost connection after EHLO from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Apr 10 17:49:55 www.example.net <info> postfix/smtpd[13667]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] this only happens in my plone 2.1.2 Instance, the 2.0.5 and 2.1.1 Instances have no problem at all (on the same machine, using the same smtpd) so this is not firewall related. The only change in the configuration was that I installed ZMySQL DA any pointers? christian

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Error in my application
by Vishal Kashyap 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hi all , Just wanted to know what this error is all about <code> 2006-04-10T22:06:22 INFO ZODB.Conflict database conflict error (oid 0x0278, class BTrees._OOBTree.OOBTree, serial this txn started with 0x0364ae9fbe711988 2006-04-10 16:31:44.634796, serial currently committed 0x0364aea45c2e1b55 2006-04-10 16:36:21.604712) at /mail/Tickets (4 conflicts, of which 0 were unresolved, since startup at Mon Apr 10 18:47:43 2006) </code> -- With Best Regards, Vishal Kashyap. http://www.vishal.net.in

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Problems Executing pdftk from within zope.
by Jerry Westrick 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hello Zopistas... I trying to modify pdf files from within zope. I use the following command: '/usr/bin/pdftk /t/in.pdf attach_files /t/a1.pdf /t/a2.pdf output /t/out.pdf' When I execute it as root it works... When executed from within zope, (this i've done via external command that executes os.system(...)) A task is started to executed it, but the task hangs. Even with set the setuid bit on /usr/bin/pdftk, making the zope spawned task run as root the command just hangs.... (I've confirmed that the task is actually running as root!) I'm sure I've forgoten something silly, but after bashing it around for several hours I just can't figure out why it hangs Any suggestions at what the problem could be are welcome 8-) Jerry P.S. Here my Control panel info, incase it's relevant.... Zope Version (unreleased version, python 2.3.4, linux2) Python Version 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 5 2004, 00:26:51) [GCC 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)] System Platform linux2 SOFTWARE_HOME /opt/zope/lib/python ZOPE_HOME /opt/zope INSTANCE_HOME /var/opt/zope/default CLIENT_HOME /var/opt/zope/default/var Network Services ZServer.HTTPServer.zhttp_server (Port: 8080) ZServer.FTPServer.FTPServer (Port: 8021) ZServer.HTTPServer.zhttp_server (Port: 8088) Process Id 32058 (1110281136) Running For 12 min 58 sec

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Re: [Zope] same object in different containers
by J Cameron Cooper 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

gf wrote: >> Hi, >> I am interested in having the same object appear as the child of two >> different containers. These containers may distant from each other in >> the object hierarchy. >> In particular, I autogenerate a list of subtopics (child folders) for >> several areas of my website, but would like a certain folder to appear >> in more that one listing because it can be classified in multiple >> ways. >> Is there a way to accomplish this? Is there anything in Zope like a >> symbolic link? > As I recall, there's PortableHole and a few others. Look at zope.org. --jcc -- "Building Websites with Plone" http://plonebook.packtpub.com/ Enfold Systems, LLC http://www.enfoldsystems.com

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Is ExtFile right for me?
by Kirk Strauser 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

My Zope site generates many reports in PDF format, and stores them in a folder that's only accessible to customers via a password-protected form. I currently store each report's password as a property of its File object. My problem is that I'm creating several hundred megabyte-sized file objects in my ZODB each day, and even though I expire them after five days the performance hit when storing and fetching the files is painful. I think, then, that I should be looking at an external filesystem store. LocalFS looks very nice, but it doesn't seem to support properties (which I currently need). ExtFile looks very nice and does support properties, and that's the way I'm heading. Does that seem reasonable given my usage? Also, I'm currently inserting the file uploads into a folder named "files" (ain't I creative?) with this method call: context.files.manage_addFile(id=filename, file=filecontents, content_type=filetype) I tried what I thought would be the ExtFile equivalent: context.files.manage_addProduct['ExtFile'].manage_addExtFile(id=filename, file=filecontents, content_type=filetype) but that only dumps the contents of the file to the client and doesn't actually store that data. Clients see a long page of gibberish like: Shipment Search | View Selected Images %PDF-1.2 %âãÏÓ 1 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 3 0 R >> endobj 2 0 obj << /CreationDate (D:20060410110742) /ModDate (D:20060410110742) /Producer (libtiff / tiff2pdf - 20060313 / d) >> endobj 3 0 obj << /Type /Pages /Kids [ 4 0 R 9 0 R ] /Count 2 >> endobj 4 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 3 0 R /MediaBox [0.0000 0.0000 608.2560 792.0000] /Contents 5 0 R /Resources << /XObject << /Im1 7 0 R >> /ProcSet [ /ImageB ] >> >> endobj 5 0 obj << /Length 6 0 R >> stream q 608.2560 0.0000 0.0000 792.0000 0.0000 0.0000 cm /Im1 Do Q endstream endobj 6 0 obj 62 endobj 7 0 obj << /Length 8 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype In other words, the normal page header, plus the raw data. I'm not sure why that's happening. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies

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Any to do product
by Vishal Kashyap 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi, Can Anyone please suggest a simple stand alone To Do list product for Zope. -- With Best Regards, Vishal Kashyap. http://www.vishal.net.in

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[Ann] Incremental filtering: a new way for catalog query optimization
by Dieter Maurer 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Catalog searches are often slow. IncrementalSearch[2] can lead to drastic gains in query time. However, there is a large class of queries that cannot be significantly sped up: queries that contain huge Or subqueries involving bushy indexes, usually resulting from a time based subquery checking effectiveness and expiration (or other similar use cases) The newest versions of the companions "AdvancedQuery", "ManagableIndex" and "IncrementalSearch[2]" support incremental filtering to execute most such queries efficiently. With incremental filtering, the index is not use in the usual way. Instead, the remaining query parts determine a set of document candidates with is then filtered by the filtering subqueries, dropping documents not matched by these subqueries. Lets look at an example: Suppose you search for news containing 'AdvancedQuery' which are effective and not expired. The standard query would look like Eq('portal_type','News') & Eq('SearchableText', 'AdvancedQuery') & Le('effective', now) & Ge('expires', now) Internally, the "Le('effective', now)" subquery is expanded into "Or(*[Eq('effective', t) for t in 'effective' and t<=now]) which usually is huge. The "Ge" subquery is similarly expanded. The filtering query has the form Eq('portal_type','News') & Eq('SearchableText', 'AdvancedQuery') & Ge('expires', now, filter=True) & Le('effective', now, filter=True) When this query is executed, "Eq('portal_type','News') & Eq('SearchableText', 'AdvancedQuery')" determines a set of candidate objects. From this (probably small) set, objects not satisfying "expires >= now" and (then) "effective <= now" are filtered out. This way, we avoid the construction of huge Or subqueries. Of course, filtering is only efficient in some circumstances: usually, when the other query parts already garantee a small set of candidates and the filtering can avoid the construction of large intermediaries. Otherwise, filtering may not improve the query speed but increase it (maybe even drastically). Incremental filtering is a powerful optimazation tool, which need careful usage... You need the complete bundle ("AdvancedQuery", "IncrementalSearch[2]" and "ManagableIndex") when you want to use incremental filtering. More information and download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> -- Dieter

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