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Re: [Zope] How to make two racks work under one specialist?
by Dirksen 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Hi Steve, Here is the skinscript of my experiment(only one rack in the specialist folder): WITH Deliverables.getItem(self.id) COMPUTE Name OTHERWISE LET Name='not available' I though when the 'with' clause fails, the 'otherwise' would fire. Instead, I got the 'notFound' error. I got the same from this version of skinscript: WITH Deliverables.getItem(self.id) COMPUTE Name WITH SELF COMPUTE Name='not available' It seems that the 1st 'with' failure terminates the execution of following clauses rather than passing down. cheers Dirksen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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index_html woes + more.... :-(
by Dario Lopez-K�sten 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Hello! I am at loss on the following problem: I have an index_html DTML-document that is only a skeleton to let me design my site around it, based on a common structure. In index_html I call various of dtml-documents and dtml-methods, like "main_pane" and "main_msg_box", etc. The idea I had (and that actually worked for some time) is that I need not implement an index_html file in every sub-folder in my zope installation, but that it would get inherited (aquired???) by all subfolders and that I only needed to make a "main_pane" method, and a "main_msg_box" document. However this is not working, anymore I might add. I cannot say what I have done wrong. The only thing I've done is to add and remove SiteRoots with SiteAccess2 (which btw i cannot make work, and has caused my zope to die abruptly, w/o leaving trace in the logs). I don't know if this is related, but i thought i'd mention it anyway. Can anybody hint me in any direction? Please? Here is my setup: Zope version: Zope 2.2.4 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2) Python version: 1.5.2 (#4, Aug 16 1999, 15:42:53) [GCC 2.95 19990728 (release)] System Platform: sunos5 Process ID: XXXXX Running for: 22 min 27 sec Zope is running behind apache (apache + zserver). Zope from src, compiled with /usr/bin/python wo_pcgi.py (is this correct, btw?) ExternalMethod (Installed product ExternalMethod (External Method-1-0-0)) Hotfix_2000-12-08 (Installed product Hotfix_2000-12-08) Hotfix_2000-12-15a (Installed product Hotfix_2000-12-15a) Hotfix_2000-12-18 (Installed product Hotfix_2000-12-18) LoginManager (Installed product LoginManager (LoginManager-0-8-8b1)) MIMETools (Installed product MIMETools) MailHost (Installed product MailHost (MailHost-1-2-0)) NewsFolder (Installed product NewsFolder) OFSP (Installed product OFSP (OFSP-1-0-0)) PlugIns (Installed product PlugIns (PlugIns-0-4-3b1)) SiteAccess (Installed product SiteAccess (SiteAccess-2-0-0)) ZCatalog (Installed product ZCatalog (ZCatalog-2-2-0)) ZGadflyDA (Installed product ZGadflyDA) ZOracleDA (Installed product ZOracleDA) ZPatterns (Installed product ZPatterns (ZPatterns-0-4-3b2)) ZSQLMethods (Installed product ZSQLMethods) ZopeTutorial (Installed product ZopeTutorial (Zope Tutorial 1.0)) As I said, any help is appreciated. Thank you /dario - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Lopez-Kästen Systems Developer Chalmers Univ. of Technology dario(a)ita.chalmers.se ICQ will yield no hits IT Systems & Services

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 alpha 1 released...
by Brian Lloyd 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

Hello all, As promised, Zope 2.3.0 alpha 1 is now available. You can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a1/ This release contains a number of important new usability features, and also marks the first release where a substantial amount of the work done happened in the Fishbowl on dev.zope.org. Some highlights of this release: - Python Scripts are now part of the Zope core. Big whopping kudos to Evan Simpson for all of the work he has put into this! Having Python Scripts in the core will allow people to much more easily separate logic and presentation (and get that logic out of DTML!) More information and prototype documentation for Python Scripts can be found in the dev.zope.org project: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/PythonMethods - The process of creating an initial user at install time has finally been fixed. Before you had to create a superuser, login as the superuser, create a normal manager, logout, then log back in as the normal manager. This was obtuse and caused big problems for newbies who would log in as the superuser and start trying to work immediately (leading to errors since the superuser cannot own objects). This process is now much more sane. Now, at install time a default initial manager (not a superuser) is created. The superuser has been renamed to the "emergency user" and is not even created by default. If you ever have a need to log in as the emergency user, you can use zpasswd.py to create it. - The new security assertion support has been checked in. For more information and an updated version of the "Zope security for developers" guide see the project on dev.zope.org: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/DeclarativeSecurity - Added new getId() method to SimpleItem.Item. This should now be used instead of referencing 'object.id' directly, as it is guaranteed to always be a method and to always return the right thing regardless of how the id of the object is stored internally. This relieves DTML writers of the contortions they previously had to go through to handle varying cases of 'id' being a method or an attribute. - Improved Ownership controls. Now you simply choose whether or not to take ownership of sub-objects when taking ownership. Implementation details about whether ownership is implicit or explicit are no longer forced on the user. - Unit testing infrastructure for the Zope core. PyUnit has been checked in, and a utility has been added that will allow us to incrementally begin accumulating (and running) test suites. The new testrunner.py in the utilities directory is a basic utility for running PyUnit based unit tests. It can be used to run all tests found in the Zope tree, all test suites in a given directory or in specific files. The testrunner will be used to ensure that all checked in tests pass before releases are made. For more information, see the docstring of the actual testrunner.py module. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a1/HISTORY.txt *Please note* that we do not build binary distributions for alpha releases - the alpha is available as a source release only. When we move into the beta period for 2.3, we will build and distribute binary releases. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Re: [Zope] is it possible to import from Excel
by Ayhan Ergul 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

When on a windows platform, I prefer to define an ODBC datasource on the excel spreadsheet, write ZSQL method that selects the fields to be imported, write a DTML method that iterates on returned records and call another ZSQL method that writes into Gadfly. You may need to handle None/Missing values to prevent from ending up in gadfly as 'None' etc. Ayhan

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inserting half a dtml tag into a zclass
by Tim Hicks 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

OK, I'm sorry for the wierd title, but I can't really describe what I want to say very easily in one line. Basically, my problem is this; - I have a zclass called DEHS with catalog_aware and dtml_document as base classes. - DEHS instances have a selectable property of public/private. - I want to be able to make it so that if the property is set to 'private', then only people on a particular network may access it. So, here is what I have done (and it works), <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('available', 0)"> <dtml-if "propertyLabel(availability) == 'private'"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('available', 1)"> </dtml-if> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('dom', _.string.split(REQUEST.REMOTE_ADDR, '.'))"> <dtml-if "dom[0] == '192'"> <dtml-if "dom[1] == '168'"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('available', 0)"> </dtml-if> </dtml-if> <dtml-if "available == 1"> <dtml-in PARENTS> <dtml-let PARENT="_.getitem('sequence-item')"> <dtml-if "PARENT.hasProperty('dehs_site_root_folder')"><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('restricted', PARENT.absolute_url())"></dtml-if> </dtml-let> </dtml-in> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(restricted+'/restricted.html')"> <dtml-else> <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> </dtml-if> So, what's the problem I hear you ask. Well, I don't really want all this code to be visible (or breakable) in every DEHS instance. What I would really like to do is have this, <dtml-var privacy> <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> </dtml-if> where, <dtml-var privacy> is just all of the code that I have above s_h_h. However, zope will not let me do this because I end up with a <dtml-if> that is missing its closing tag, and one that does not have an opening tag. I realise that I there are products already designed with the sort of functionality I am after built in, but I will not have much influence on the products that will be available on the server that this site will end up on... which is why I'm doing it in this way. Any input is much appreciated. cheers tim

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can't change zclass meta type
by Geoffrey L. Wright 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

I can't seem to completely change a zclass meta type. When I make a change on the "basic" tab of the zclass, my change seems to take, and the new meta type is displayed in the form. But when I try to add an instance of this metatype, I still see the old meta type name in the dropdown. When I try to reference objects by metatype in my code, the new name does work, so it appears that the new metatype is ... mostly ... applied. Is this a bug? Or is the some other location where I also need to change this info? -- Geoffrey L. Wright Developer / Systems Administrator (907) 563-2721 ex. 4900 http://www.integritysi.com

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Zope install - cannot login
by Odile Bénassy 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Here is a problem I'm encountering while installing Zope through PCGI : I can get the first screen but can't log into management screen with "superuser" and "123" Yet it works perfectly with ZServer installation instead of PCGI installation I have tried all sorts of combinations with file /var/zope/access, no success As error messages, at first I got """ Traceback (innermost last): File "z2.py", line 554, in ? exec "import "+MODULE in {} File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/share/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line 110, in ? DB=ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage(Globals.BobobaseName) File "/usr/share/zope/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py", line 262, in __init__ lock_file(f) File "/usr/share/zope/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 101, in lock_file raise error, ( ZODB.POSException.StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There must be another process that has opened the file. <p> "" then nothing at all And if I try python z2.py I get the answer """ Traceback (innermost last): File "z2.py", line 524, in ? import ZServer ImportError: No module named ZServer """ Can you help me ? -- Odile Bénassy http://www.libresoftware-educ.org/

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Re: [Zope] SiteAccess / SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE bad
by Edwin Martin 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Bill wrote: >Sounds like something's wrong with your apache conf. Please show us what >that looks like. I'm running a similar setup on Debian, too, and it works >fine. Fortunately, I have solved the problem myself. Thanks for everybody for looking into my problem. For the curious: In the apache httpd.conf I made a proxy to the Zope web, except for the home page '/'. Because in the SiteRoot I pointed the '/' as the root, so http://www.mydomain.nl:9673/SiteRoot/manage_main points the Zope management form to '/'. Because there's no Zope at '/', deleting the SiteRoot from Zope management failed. Changing in apache httpd.conf the / to ..:9673 solved this. Thanks, Edwin. --- The world is moving so fast these days that the person who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick Surf Edwin Martin's brainwaves: http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/

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is it possible to import from Excel
by K H Subrahmanyan 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hello, Now we have developed some database using gadfly in zope. Actually there are some datum which are there in Excel. I would like to know is it possible to import all that datum from Excel to zope database, instead of giving all the data to zope manually. Actually all those data are the Emp. records. Currently they are maintaining it in Excel. Now they want to make it web based stuff. We have developed a tool for that. Since all that data are there in Excel I wanted some stuff to import that. Hoping your reply. bye yours subrahmanyan.

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tuples in DTML
by Michael Bernstein 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Hi everybody, I've been messing with some external methods and I've got one that returns a tuple. The tuple consists of a list and a few strings. How do I access the tuple elements from DTML? Cheers, Michael Bernstein.

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