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Worldpilot bugs
by Graham Chiu 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

Using the latest checkout on 2.1.4 1. Mailboxes on the IMAP server with a hyphen in their name do not display 2. The calendar gets out of sync after a few months so that clicking on a date brings up the day before's events. -- Regards, Graham Chiu gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.php Powered by Interbase and Zope

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FAQ Wiki and What happend @ O'Reilly Conference
by alan runyan 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

hello, I'm working on quite a large java project and have been pushed back into ZOPE remission :( but I did have a chance to goto the O'Reilly Open Src Conference where I saw some pythoneers :) , lots of perl mongers :( and some fellow Zopistas. One of the things, that I'm not quite sure has been talked about was a small BOF on ZOPE. I will let it be up to DC to talk about the BOF in full if they want to but I ran into an instant problem that I'm trying to tackle over this weekend. main problem -- lots of mis-information and mis-communication. <stream_of_consciousness> One of the fellows there was from france and he had a problem w/ the ZOPE vernicular (Acquistion, Products, DTML Method, etc... ) I believe, I hope! this will result in some renaming schemes and maybe some changes in the basic ZOPE approach for newbies. to make things easier by having CONTENT, and TEMPLATEs is one approach. but the one that really really killed me was being in the lecture for the Content Mgmt System for saloon.com. they basically use a mixture of mod_perl, html::mason, java, xml and oracle for there entire publishing system. It is actually farily primitive.. and could have been easily tackled w/ ZOPE and forethoughts XML tools! but instead of having problems with the vernicular (which was indirectly mentioned.. he believed that ZOPE would take a python genius to extend... not quite how true that is, but its definetly a feeling when you first start out, or evaluate the product) he mis-interpreted focuses of Digital Creations nad ZOPE community. He thought that ZServer was written by Digital Creations. And if you didnt spend as much time as I have reading the mailing lists, you may misconstrue that the XML tools that are being worked on now are a DC/ZOPE effort (which isnt true at all, a majority of it is coming from the Community and Forethought). but.. XMLDocument was written by DC... so I could kinda see that the lecturer thought ZOPE was 're-inventing the wheel' as far as it came to basic tools, ZServer was concerned. this is not true. so, how I plan on aiding this (please contribute) is developing a FAQ for ZOPE this weekend, in my spare time. I hope it generates a 'one stop of FAQs' .. this is being addressed by ZDP (and I would use the ZDP) but I believe its kinda hanging off the zope.org and the 'general purspose - ZOPE' FAQs should be represented on the website. if you've answered a question more than twice, please put the question on the FAQ Wiki and then it can be addressed. zope.org does need a refactoring but I believe FAQs probably can not wait. and the lack of structured information is hurting ZOPE quite a bit. its fairly unorganized, mainly because it has been (click on Members:) a victim of its own success. so, if you've made it this far, step over to FAQ Wiki - http://www.zope.org/Members/runyaga/ZopeFAQs/FrontPage what is needed now more than anything is Questions, for the Wiki. what questions to newbies or product evaluators need to be more intrigued by ZOPE. what general information is asked over and over again in the mailing lists. the point of this is to be fairly short and concise. If I can get lots of information - I will edit it down into cohesive FAQ Answers. </stream_of_consciousness> sorry if I dont make much sense, I only have a few hours to work on this :( runyaga - runyaga_at_thisbox.com

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ANN : ZAnnu a multi-agencies searchable directory
by Didier Georgieff 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

Hello, I've uploaded a first working version of ZAnnu. At the moment ZAnnu is an ugly thing ... and ... a multi-agencies searchable directory (people and organizations) based on MySQL. This is a first try to learn & experiment Zope & ZSQL while making a product i could use in a real project. So it will be improved and have a better design in the near future. It's easy to use by only putting a <dtml-var rechercheBoite> tag (sorry for the french, it will change soon). More informations at : http://www.zope.org/Members/dgeorgieff/ZAnnu I would be really glad to have any comment, feedback about the structure, the coding and especially about the feature you would like to see in ZAnnu. Contributions, and patches are more than welcome. Didier Georgieff.

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problem with rss
by Oliver Frommel 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

hi, I am currently experiencing a problem of which I am not sure it is related to ZOpe directly. I have created a DTML method that creates an RSS file for my.netscape.com, which seemed to work fine. (my test version is currently at http://m945.afk.de/m/news.rss.dyn) Now that we have some german umlauts in our headlines the my.netscape validating parser (http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/validate.tmpl) complains about non UTF-8 characters. When I change the XML encoding type to ISO-8859-1 the problem still persists. I suspect that Zope silently sets the encoding type to something different. My DTML method looks like this: <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/rdf')"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd"> <rss version="0.91"> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/"> <channel> ... </rdf:RDF> when I try to change the dtml-call to set the charset to ISO-8859-1 Zope produces the "<html><head></head>" sequence again. Any ideas on how to solve this problem? thanks -Oliver

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Announcement: Znolk 0.1.1
by Philipp Auersperg 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

I've uploaded Znolk 0.1.1 to http://www.zope.org/Members/zwork with minor bug fixes and added support for ZPoPy connections. Important hint: -------------------- At the third screen of the wizard where you select the columns you MUST select at least one column as 'Primary key' because Znolk needs the PK to identify the record to be edited. Otherwise you get the following error message when clicking the 'edit' link in the BrowseReport: Error Type: OperationalError Error Value: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "" Philipp Auersperg

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Re: [Zope] An observation about manage_* methods
by Dieter Maurer 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

albert boulanger writes: > .... > def manage_editData(self, data, REQUEST=None): > """Change item data""" > self._rows = map(self._FixRow, ImportExport.ImportData(data)) > self._n_rows = len(self._rows) > > self._GenerateIndex() > > return self.manage_editedDialog(REQUEST) > > > Now there is an assumption in this code that the editing context that > this is being called from is some manage_ method, hence returns like > "return self.manage_editedDialog(REQUEST)". This is annoying if you are > writing a user-managed content method that does not wants the user to > see the manage interface because eventually it goes to one with such > returns. Instead, I would like to have control on where he/she returns > (often to the method I wrote or to index_html). I could do a > <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect..., but the return > self.manage_editedDialog(REQUEST) gets in the way. Am I overlooking > something or is this a weakness in this design pattern for management? > I could wind up making my own version of manage_editData that does not > do the return self.manage_editedDialog(REQUEST). (I know some code at > least conditionalizes this to the presence of REQUEST.) Many methods use: if REQUEST is not None: do something: e.g. redirect or return In this case, you simply do not pass REQUEST. If you find a method that is not conditional on "REQUEST", use "dtml-call". This will discard the return value and should work, unless the code raises an exception. Maybe "try/except" can be used to handle the exception. Dieter

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Another Digest Complaint
by Dieter Maurer 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

Zope mailing list digests are a real pain! My latest bad experience: * on Jul 20, the digest contained a message from Felipe E Barousse Boue * I answered it on Jul 20 * today, the digest contained my answer and *AFTER* my answer Felipe's message *AGAIN*. I often realize that digests contain messages out of order, e.g. where the answer precedes the question. This is very confusing. PLEASE update mailman! As someone in the list told us, the current mailman version works much better than the (apparently) old version used for the Zope mailing lists. Dieter

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Announce: WiFLZ Simple Widget Framework for Zope
by Andrew Kenneth Milton 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

Greetings once again, This is the start of the Widget Framework for Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/WiFLZ/ It's an attempt at building something for re-use slightly more cohesive than methods and documents, and slightly less cohesive than Products and ZClasses. README Excerpt: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WiFLZ is a dtml widget framework for Zope. If you are a programmer, you will probably hate it. It's not called ZWiFL because I was sick of things starting with Z d8) Summary ======= o Widgets consist of; - header, body, and footer dtml, - optional arguments for the dtml template, - sql query, - optional arguments for the sql template, and - description field for built-in 'help' facility. o Widgets can be tested from the management interface. o Widgets can be ZODB backed, DB backed, or both. o Widgets can be optionally rendered to a DB effectively caching widget states, which is useful for slow changing, or time consuming things such as reports. o Cached Widgets have a configurable TTL. o DB Backed widgets can be grouped into different libraries, and can be called from specific libraries allowing test widgets to be setup without compromising production widgets. o DB Backed widgets can be edited from any Zope installation with access to the DB. Purpose ======= This is part of a broader system for site design still under development. Zope currently lacks a mid level 'reuse' facility, reuse is limited to very fine grained (individual methods, and documents), or very coarse grained (products) elements. Content managers also like to be able to 'build' components that can be used in different parts of the site, and they like to be able to 'hold' those components. This system does not remove the ability to have fine grained reuse, as all of the dtml stored is resolved, so any methods you have developed can be used in a widget (e.g. incorporating ZBabel translations into widgets). -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm(a)theinternet.com.au|

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Re: [Zope] manage_pasteObjects() permissions?
by Jason Byron 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

I figured out what was wrong. I wasn't giving all of the required parameters to manage_copyObjects() and manage_pasteObjects(). Evidently for both to work they need the REQUEST parameters set. Here's the calls I got to work: COPY: <dtml-call "manage_copyObjects(REQUEST['ids'],REQUEST)"> -- ids are a checkbox selection from the form (ie: <input type="checkbox" name="ids:list" value="&dtml-id;"> ) PASTE: <dtml-call "manage_pasteObjects(_.None, REQUEST)"> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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Anyone built a classifieds or review product?
by J. Atwood 22 Jul '00

22 Jul '00

On my list of products that I would like to build / help build ZCLassifieds: A product that allows users to post classifieds for sale with categories, pictures, start and end dates, email contacts, etc. Could be anonymous or require a log in that plays upon the strengths of Zope. ZReview: A generic review product that allows people to post reviews of "things" and have other people comment on the review. A lot of what is in Zope Treasures but maybe with pictures etc. Has anyone starting building these, need these, or would be interested in helping build these? J

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