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Re: [Zope] RE: Z3950
by Jon Prettyman 04 May '00

04 May '00

I worked on some Web PAC products using Z39.50 while working at NOTIS/Ameritech. If someone is looking to integrate Zope with a public access product, I'd love to talk to you about some ideas I've had about this. -jon "Sin Hang Kin" <kentsin(a)macauweb.com> writes: > I know that there are a YAZ toolkit which I think have client and server. > > I think there is no python code for wais or z3950 available. Propably, some > one should wrap the YAZ with python. > > Rgs, > > Kent Sin >

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searching
by John Earl 04 May '00

04 May '00

> no, ZCatalog does not know about external files (out of the box) > > > OR, should I stick with the articles in the filesystem > > with ht://dig like we've got now, and just build the interface to > > ht://dig in Zope? > > we use Ultraseek http://ultraseek.com/products/ultraseek/ultratop.htm at > work (which is available for the low low price of a 1000$ for x files > indexed) and there is a Zope Ultraseek DA (havent used it yet)! > > I've run across a potentially really kick ass indexer, havent used it but it > has a really nice cover! its called Udmsearch - http://mysearch.udm.net/ - > its actively developed, searches all types of sources (news, ftp, http, FS, > databases!!) and its OSS! <- I will be using this in the next 3 months Anyone know of a good way to index lots of text (40000 items, ~ 10-20K each) in a MySQL database? Could I do it via Zope somehow - ZCatalog? John

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Tree
by Brown Fox 04 May '00

04 May '00

Hello, on a tree if you want to expand an item you have to click on the +. Can i expand (or collapse) an item clicking on the name of the folder or (better) on its icon? Thanks, Bruno ______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

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RE: Z3950
by Sin Hang Kin 04 May '00

04 May '00

I know that there are a YAZ toolkit which I think have client and server. I think there is no python code for wais or z3950 available. Propably, some one should wrap the YAZ with python. Rgs, Kent Sin

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The Zen of ZClasses
by RC Compaan 04 May '00

04 May '00

I'm still calling myself a Zope newbie especially when it comes to creating new programmatic classes in Zope. I struggle to translate the following example into good Zope practice: I have a class called CLIENT, which holds client detail. I have another class called ACCOUNT which stores information of an account for a spesific client. When a user creates an new ACCOUNT he must be able to select the CLIENT from a list of clients. What i need guidance on is the linking of these two classes. I thought of just creating a property ClientName in my zclass, Account, of the type selection and spesifying ClientList as Value for my property. ClientList is a method which returns a list of clients. Is this the best way to day it, or is there a better way? Roché Compaan

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Newbie problem with dtml-in expr.........
by Tim Gildersleeve 04 May '00

04 May '00

I expect that this is somewhere in the documentation, but I cant seem to find it. I appolagise if I am asking a stupid question. I am creating a list of jobs to be done in our department, and to populate one of the html tables, I need to get a database column from a query based on a lookup table. In other words I am trying to do something similar to: <dtml-in expr="qryJobType(JOB_TYPE_ID='6')"> This works ok and returns the results where the JOB_TYPE_ID=6. However the JOB_TYPE_ID needs to be retrieved from another query. I have tried: <dtml-in expr="qryJobType(JOB_TYPE_ID='<dtml-var Type_ID-->')"> But this doesnt work. I am assuming that the '' around the dtml-var is trying to treat this literally rather than expand it. I imagine that I have to do something to this to escape it from this action but cant seem to find out what. IF someone could point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful. Please email me any answers as well as posting here as I may not see a response here. Tim Gildersleeve timg(a)bilk.ac.uk <mailto:timg@bilk.ac.uk>

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changing method permission???
by Pierre Rougier 04 May '00

04 May '00

Hi zopatistas, first, as I see there are still responses for my question about testong the id, I founded the solution, you can test it, but like that: <dtml-if "id() == index_html"> anyway, I have another problem, which is that I want to change the index-html method from another method. I make a form which has a new_index_html text area, and from it, I call a Builder method which is: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-call "index_html.manage_upload(new_index_html)"> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> The problem is that zope says that there is an autorisation failure and ask me a new password. So, I think I have to change a permission somewhere, but I do not find where. How my dtml method Builder change my index_html method??? Thanks for all

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RE: [Zope] RelationalStorage (was LocalFS)
by Chris McDonough 04 May '00

04 May '00

> Will this be db agnostic or be fairly hardcoded? Work seems to be initially towards Oracle and MySQL, but the intention is to abstract commonalities into a base class that would make it fairly easy to use any SQL database. > There are people on the IB lists which are Zope aware and > would like to > see IB be a first class citizen in the Zope community. I am not an > expert on IB, but from what I've seen it could possibly > support objects > well. It has an understanding of the OO world. Interbase is also an option... I'd love to use it.. it may be part of development. > It would be nice if this could be done where it could scale from the > 'whats sql' user to the power sql user. Giving both the ability to use > it at their level. What I mean here is that it is transparent as > possible while providing as much expressiveness as possible. It will be indistinguishable from a FileStorage as far as the user is concerned. It won't allow you to make use of zope object instance data outside Zope, however, as it will still store objects in pickled format.

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Re: [Zope] (no subject)
by Michel Pelletier 04 May '00

04 May '00

Dragomir Denev wrote: > > On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > > Zope doesn't like it if there is no html tags before the DTML begins. I > > think this is fixed, what version are you running? > > > > There is much easier and more powerful way to do what you want. In your > > calling form, name the buttons: > > > > <input type="submit" name="clicked_ok:method" value=" Ok "> > > <input type="submit" name="clicked_cancel:method" value=" Cancel "> > > > > And create two methods, one named 'clicked_ok' and the other named > > 'clicked_cancel'. This allows trivial creation of web 'dialog boxes' or > > methods that are triggered on certain submit buttons. > > > > More documentation is here > > > > http://classic.zope.org:8080/Documentation/Reference/ORB > > > > which is admitedly pretty hard to find. Rooting through the > > documentation section of Zope.org can turn up alot of good stuff. > > > > -Michel > > 10x for the response. I'm using 2.1.6, so it looks like not fixed. I don't understand what this means. Please be more specific about what 10x means and what it is that does not look fixed. Please continue to CC the list. -Michel

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MS FrontPage Extensions?
by John Ash 04 May '00

04 May '00

Hi all, Has anyone done anything with integrating MS FrontPage with Zope? I know it sounds kind-of bad... but I'm getting desperate. :) We have several departments here that have non-techy people needing to maintain mostly static web pages... but I'd like to give them some additional pre-built dynamic Zope products they can easily plug into their sites too. So, in short, I would like to let them publish from FrontPage to Zope. Several problems immediately crop up: MS FrontPage makes extensive use of what it calls "private" directories (directories whose names begin with "_"). Zope cannot handle objects whose id's begin with "_" because of Python's naming conventions. Soooooooooo... when you try to publish a MS FrontPage "web" to Zope you get errors. There are other little irritations which would be nice to solve, like: changing the default document from index.htm to index_html, making use of standard_html_header and standard_html_footer, and making the server side extensions work. To solve some of these problems I created a Windows python script which takes a published MS FrontPage "web" and fixes/ftp's it to Zope. So, a person can use MS FrontPage and edit their pages. When they're done, they can publish to a directory on their local hard drive. Then they run this little python script which does the following: 1. Renames any files or directories beginning with "_" to a name that does not begin with "_". 2. Edits all html pages, changing links to files/dirs renamed in step #1. 3. Renames index.htm to index_html (*) 4. Strips off all html outside the <BODY>...</BODY> tags, replacing it with <dtml-var standard_html_header> and <dtml-var standard_html_footer> and keeping some HEAD tags in a separate file called "additional_header" (which can then be optionally included by the standard_html_header) 5. FTP's all files and associated directories to a Medusa (Zope ftp server) (*) To keep step #3 from breaking links, add an index.htm method high in the object hierarchy which simply calls index_html So far this approach seems to work quite well. Now I would like to add functionality for some of the MS FrontPage server-side extensions. Several of the SSE's seem to be almost trivial to convert into equivalent Zope dtml. Others seem more complex. General questions: 1. Has anyone gotten MS Frontpage and Zope to talk any other way? 2. Does this approach seem like a good idea? 3. Has anyone created Zope replacements for SSE's? ...or similar products? 4. Is there any interest in this? (i.e. would anyone like to help?) Please email me if you're interested or would like a copy of the script. If there's enough interest, I'll summarize the responses back to the list. Cheers, John -- .......................................................... John Ash, R & D Manager | Phone: (509) 527-2993 Information Services | FAX: (509) 527-2008 Walla Walla College | Email: ashjoh(a)wwc.edu College Place, WA 99324 | http://www.wwc.edu/~jash

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