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Managing tons of inter-related DTML methods
by Sean McGrath 11 May '00

11 May '00

Dia dhaoibh mo chairde Zopeannach! (Irish variation of "hello fellow Zopistas". A bit irregular in Irish which does not have the letter 'Z':-) I am creating DTML methods at a rate of knots and wondering how best to manage them in a modular fashion. I like the idea of segregating the methods into folders but am worried about arranging that the methods that call each other can do so... Also, I have a shed load of external methods. What is recommended practice here? Bundle all code into a single Python module, use many modules. Does it matter? Thanks in advance, regards, http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python

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This is completely bogus but..
by Morten W. Petersen 11 May '00

11 May '00

I want lots of uptime. On my Linux box, and on my Zope. Problem is, there are so many cool products being developed all the time, so I have to restart Zope all the time. Is there a (hackish?) way to update filesystem installed products? This could be a good thing if we want to hotpatch a server of some sort. -Morten ------------------------------------------------------------- How to reply to email: http://home.sol.no/~vidaandr/news/OBSquoting.html (norsk) http://home.sol.no/~vidaandr/news/FAQquoting.html (english) Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him?

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Accouting software?
by Nicolas MONNET 11 May '00

11 May '00

For my current project, I need software to manage billing, accounting information, etc ... Has someone here ever linked zope to the equivalent of Sage / Navision / SAP software for that kind of purpose? Any alternative idea? (I'm interested in either commercial or free/open-source software). Thanks for your help. -- Nicolas MONNET, Technical Director, IT-Xchange <URL:http://www.it-xchange.com> <URL:mailto:nico@it-xchange.com> <URL:mailto:nico@monnet.to>

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One line patch for rename
by Paolo Bizzarri 11 May '00

11 May '00

Hi everybody, I have found pretty useful the following change in the zope OFS/renameForm.dtml Change the line <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="new_id" SIZE="20"> to <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="new_id" VALUE="<dtml-var id>" SIZE="20"> In this way, you do not have to rewrite the name of an object, only to correct it. Just my two cents. Paolo

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Fix for SiteAccess bug affecting ZCatalog users
by Evan Simpson 11 May '00

11 May '00

There's a subtle bug in current and older versions of SiteAccess which can cause ZCatalog and dependent Products to fail. If you use an Access Rule in your root folder which alters REQUEST.path (for virtual hosting purposes, for example) then all ZCatalogs will return incorrect objects. In Products/SiteAccess/ChangeBehaviors.py, delete lines 68 and 69, or comment them out so that they look like: #if allow_btr: self.before_traverse(object, response) #entry_name = '' This ought to fix the problem. Please let me know if it doesn't. If nobody says anything, this will become SiteAccess v0.2.1 Also, a word of warning: Since ZCatalog doesn't store information (such as the request's hostname and port) used to determine object access paths under virtual hosting, you should avoid adding objects to a Catalog via one virtual host (or raw access) and retrieving them via another. Cheers, Evan @ 4-am

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Newbie questions and discussion
by Gary Wong 11 May '00

11 May '00

Hi all, I've just discovered Zope and have successfully installed it on WinNT platform. I've played with it, and had successfully created a searchable job board system and other quick and dirty tasks by using the great HOWTO articles submitted by Zope users. However, I still have some issues that perhaps you guys can help me with: 1) Our designers are big Dreamweaver fans. How would we use it in conjunction with Zope? I know there is a current thread about this. Perhaps some users can shed some light on how to use third party web publishing/design/layout tools such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage (God forbid), Allair Homesite, etc, with Zope. Many of these tools have their own way of managing websites. Does this mean we have to "disable/ignore" these features, and just treat Dreamweaver/Frontpage/etc as a layout and design tool, and thus not benefit from the "libraries" or "template" functions? 2) I am bidding for a project that I think will be PERFECT for Zope (diehard Zope users will probably say that every project is Zopeable!) It is an intranet site that has areas where users can log in, read articles and news for the department they are in, and also submit news and articles as well. Now, the hard part is that not only do I need to promote my company and sell them on our skills, we need to sell them on the idea of using Zope. Can someone suggest some highlights of Zope that will make a non-technical reader of this proposal go goo-goo over Zope? All the stuff I've read on why Zope is great is mostly technical in nature (OO based, Extensible, blah blah blah geek talk). Anyone know of a place that describes the benefits of Zope from a high-level, "Zope for dummies" language? If we come up with some Marketing spiff on this list and share it, then everyone on the list who develops with Zope and bid for jobs can benefit from it. 3) Here's a more technical question. I use Oreilly Website Pro (WSP) to host my sites using virtual servers. I know I can "front end" Zope with WSP by using pzope.cgi. I am still looking into how to do this correctly, since WSP may not be passing authentication information. Anyone done this already with WSP? 4) How do I manage multiple projects/websites with Zope? Do I need a new instance of Zope running for each site? Or, do I just make folders for each project and start them from there? If I do this, then how do I set up my virtual servers? I wouldn't want each of my site's home page to have to be: http://www.clientsite.com/clientsite/ (Where clientsite would be the folder in zope). In Apache there is rewrite rules, but not WSP. Any hints? Thanks for any input! Gary Wong +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Gary Wong gary.wong(a)spingroup.com The Spin Group, Inc. 2000 S. 4th Street Milwaukee, WI 53204 p.414-672-8888 f.414-672-8183

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Transparent Folders cause import fail
by Didier Georgieff 11 May '00

11 May '00

Hello, i'm switching from 2.1.6 on NT to 2.1.6 on Linux (and have added the "transparent folder" on the new machine). And i was trying to import existing documents via xml It failed with messages below. I ended up trying to import a single image object without success. Same error. When i deleted the TF product it was back to normal and import was working fine. Checked again with the TF product installed and failed again. Any idea on what's going on ? Thanks in advance. Didier Georgieff. Traceback (innermost last): File /Zope216/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File /Zope216/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 179, in publish File /Zope216/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 202, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) File /Zope216/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 165, in publish File /Zope216/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_importObject) File /Zope216/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: manage_importObject) File /Zope216/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 488, in manage_importObject (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) File /Zope216/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 231, in _setObject (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) File /Zope216/lib/python/Products/TransparentFolders/TransparentFolder Patch.py, line 138, in _checkId (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) File /Zope216/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 199, in _checkId (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) Bad Request: (see above)

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uniqueValuesFor from only part of the catalog?
by Jonathan Cheyne 11 May '00

11 May '00

How can I prefilter the catalog so that the list of unique values only comes from records containing a specific keyword? I set up a keywords index as per one of the howtos whic works well and I can extract a unique values list with <dtml-in "Catalog.uniqueValuesFor('keywords')"> but I only want to see part of the catalog ... how? (this is a follow up to my earlier rather rambling plea :-) Jonathan

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Removing all vestiges of Zope
by John R. Hillman 11 May '00

11 May '00

Help! I want to completely remove Zope from my development server, then reinstall the whole thing from scratch (Linux system, BTW). I did and 'rm -rf' on the /usr/local/Zope directory, but upon reinstall, all of the old stuff is still there! YIKES! How do I do this? Any help most appreciated! Regards, -- John R. Hillman Multimedia Developer/System Administrator Educational Systems Room 2118-G, Curtice-Mott Complex Mott Community College Flint, MI 48503 Telephone: 810-762-0467

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newbie - force frame update for multiple users?
by Brian McClain 11 May '00

11 May '00

Hello Please forgive my ignorance, but is the following possible? I'll have about 10 users viewing the same dtml document which displays a frameset. Anyone of the users can supply input via a form in one of the frames. The submitted data is used to update the other frames. Is it possible to get the server to update all the users and not just the single submitter? How would I get a reference to the other users? Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian

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