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ZCatalog scalability?
by J�lio Dinis Silva 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Does anyone has a Catalog with more than 1500 items catalogued? If yes does anyone can do searches to this Catalog in a resonable time without freezing ZServer until it ends? Thanks, Júlio Silva _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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Job Tracking Product
by Andy McKay 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Anyone seen a product to track jobs, similar to a bug tracking product (Collector, Itrack etc) but more focused on resources, timelines, completion rate etc...? Had a look on Zope.org and managed to miss it if there is one. TIA -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState.

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FW: [Zope] adding properties to all existing docs
by michael angelo ruberto 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

hi Dieter, thanks for the advice. i have written a small DTML script which i plan to call from the standard html header so that the intranet users will unknowingly populate the docs as they browse. saves me from doing it manually unless there are file objects in the folder. here is the script: <dtml-in "PARENTS[0].objectItems(['File','DTML Document'])" sort=title> <dtml-unless "_.string.find(_['id'],'index_html')==0"> <dtml-comment> properties are added in the unless below. to add additional properties to this script repeat the unless block for each new property and change the id and type to what you want to add. </dtml-comment> <dtml-unless "hasProperty('rev')"> <dtml-call "manage_addProperty('rev','none','string')"> </dtml-unless> </dtml-unless> </dtml-in> to run the script give it manager role and call the method in the URL or with a <dtml-var> tag. you can select the types of objects it "sees" in the first line. please let me know if there is some flaw in doing it this way. take care -<mike>- ps: i tried to make a python method for this but couldn't figure out how to handle the objects properly. -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 12:49 PM To: michael angelo ruberto Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] adding properties to all existing docs michael angelo ruberto writes: > i have a Zope containing 4700+ files and documents. i want to add new > properties to all of them, how can i do this programmatically? is it > possible to change the base classes? if so, how? It is possible to change the base class but I would not do it (as it affects all Zope objects and your change is likely to disappear when you upgrade). You can automate Zope either internally or externally. Internally (via a method (DTML or Python)) you would use ZopeFind to list all objects that need to be updated and then iterate (dtml-in) over the objects to update. Externally, you would use "ZPublisher.ZClient". I would go for the internal solution. Dieter

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Pre-newbie question: how to implement this app?
by Don Dwiggins 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

I'm calling this a "pre-newbie" question because I'm not running Zope yet, although I've been looking into it for some time, and have recently started reading in earnest. I have an application that I think would be a good initial app for getting into Zope, and I'd like some advice on how to go about it. It's a basic task list management system for a small group of developers, and it has the following characteristics: - There are two main entities: Task and Person. The relationship between them is many-to-many (a person may be assigned to multiple tasks, a task may have multiple people assigned). - There will be a relatively small number of tasks and people. - Tasks will be added, removed, and modified frequently; people less so. - When a task or person is removed, integrity should be maintained by removing assignments involving the removed entity. - I'll start with a couple of basic views that let people see the tasks, their status, assignments, priorities, etc. Later, there'll probably be more. - I want to be able to add attributes to both entities at will. - Initially, I'll be maintaining the list, but I'd like to add the capability for people to sign up for tasks, and to change the status of tasks they're assigned to. - Security isn't an issue here, but avoiding blunders is. Questions: - What are the pros and cons of storing the entities in the ZODB vs. a relational DB? - How best to represent the many-to-many relationship? (Usually, in a relational DB, I'd use a relationship table such as PersonTaskAssignment.) In particular, how does Zope handle references between independent objects? - What Zope products should I consider using to aid in the implementation? - Is there already an app like this that I could adapt? Thanks for any good words you can offer, Don Dwiggins Competitive Knowledge, Inc.

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String to Object
by Leichtman, David J 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Does anyone now how I might take a string and turn it into an object reference in DTML? By that, I mean, I want to take a string like: 'object.subobject.subobject' from a database, and I want to reference it as <dtml-var object.subobject.subobject>. I think this is a simple, straightforward thing, but I've been wracking my brain over it.

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RE: [Zope] Can't delete products
by Stephan Goeldi 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Is it save to simply delete a folder in Products? >From: Max Møller Rasmussen <maxm(a)normik.dk> >To: "'stephan.goeldi(a)datacomm.ch'" <stephan.goeldi(a)datacomm.ch>, >"'zope(a)zope.org'" <zope(a)zope.org> >Subject: RE: [Zope] Can't delete products >Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:28:00 +0100 > >From: Stephan Goeldi [mailto:stephan_goeldi@hotmail.com] > > >I deleted some products in Control_Panel several times. Some are gone >(ok), > > >some stay and seem to be undeletable. I'm sure someone shows me the way >to > >delete it from the command line (it's Zope 2.2.2 on RedHat Linux). > >You should also delete the products from your product directory. > >Maybe that is the problem? > >regards > Max M > > >_______________________________________________ >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 ) > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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Python ZMethod (was Python Zope Method as option for renamed Python Method?)
by Hamish Lawson 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

I suggested the term Zope Method for anything Zope regards as a method, giving Python Zope Method, Perl Zope Method, DTML Zope Method, SQL Zope Method, etc. But Chris Withers thought those to be too long and unwieldy. OK, what about ZMethod? Thus Python ZMethod, Perl ZMethod, DTML ZMethod, SQL ZMethod. I was quite favourably disposed toward Operation, but I wanted to keep 'method' somehow as it I felt it better brought out the acquisition aspect. Hamish ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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my brains?
by J�lio Dinis Silva 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Hello, I'm doing some search in two catalogs I have. They each have more than 1000 items. When a search is made besides taking to long the debug information screen print a lot of <my brains instance>. Can anyone explain what is this "my brains" thing or some page to go and read more about this? Thanks, Júlio Dinis Silva _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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ZSQL is killing me...
by Hugo Ramos 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Yellow ppl, I think everybody already had this problem... Suppose you have a DB connection in /root/subfolder/DB_conn then you build lots of zsql objects from that point down... then you move the DB connection object up to the root. result: all ZSQL's have to be changed to assume the DB_conn new position. shouldn't the zsql's assume right away that the upper DB_conn in the root folder is the right one?? regards ===== Hugo Ramos - hugo(a)zopers.org ZopersORG - http://www.zopers.org ===== Do not meddle in the affairs of programmers, for they are easy to annoy, and have all the source code!!!

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RE: [Zope] XMLRPC accessing Zope DTML/SQL methods
by Mayers, Philip J 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

<sigh> Getting there. Note to the wise - when using PCGI and Apache, sometimes Zope won't notice that you've edited an internal method source file... The cache in Data.fs gets out-of-date. Ok. So, I have this working: def callSQLmethod(self, REQUEST): s=self.sqlMethod(self, REQUEST) y = [] for x in s: y.append(x) return str(y) Called over XMLRPC, this gives me: [<r instance at 853ee30>, <r instance at 84f2810>, <r instance at 84f29f0>, <r instance at 84b1528>] Fine, I can extract the result data later... How can I pass paramters to the method without overwriting the REQUEST value - I need access to that, so I can get environment variables, namely the SSL certificate subject name. Regards, Phil +----------------------------------+ | Phil Mayers, Network Support | | Centre for Computing Services | | Imperial College | +----------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: Mayers, Philip J [mailto:p.mayers@ic.ac.uk] Sent: 08 November 2000 10:29 To: 'zope(a)zope.org' Subject: RE: [Zope] XMLRPC accessing Zope DTML/SQL methods Ok, so this works: def extmethod(self, REQUEST): return str(REQUEST) >From the web that prints the string Representation of REQUEST. But, over XMLRPC, this: s=xmlrpblib.Server("http://server.name/Zope/path/") s.path.extmethod() Returns the string representation of REQUEST, but *this* s.path.extmethod('rrr') return 'rrr'. What's happening? Regards, Phil +----------------------------------+ | Phil Mayers, Network Support | | Centre for Computing Services | | Imperial College | +----------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: 07 November 2000 21:35 To: Mayers, Philip J Cc: 'zope(a)zope.org' Subject: Re: [Zope] XMLRPC accessing Zope DTML/SQL methods <snip helpful replies> _______________________________________________ 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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