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dumb newbie tree prob
by michael angelo ruberto 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

hi, i am just scratching the surface of this dtml. i tried to copy some code for the tree tag out of the DTML_Reference but it won't work. i'm clueless, any help is appreciated. here's the source: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <h2><dtml-var title_or_id></h2> <p> This is the <dtml-var id> Document. <dtml-tree> <dtml-var id> </dtml-tree> </p> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> thanks -<mike>-

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Third Party Products
by Daniel G. Rusch 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

How does one install third party python products such as PIL or ReportLab so that Zope's python interpreter can find it in it's path. I have installed both of these python products on a machine that has python installed and not Zope and I have no problem using them. I am trying to install them on my Zope machine so that I can using them in my Zope site, but I can't seem to get Zope's python interpreter to find them. Should I install them in the Extensions directory or where? How does one set the Zope python path? Or is the evaluator stuck half way up. Thanks, Dan

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newbie: Opera, changing users, Windows, etiquette, active tutorial
by Jerry McRae 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

Hello, 1. Opera: Is anyone using the better browser, Opera, with Zope sites? I (currently) run only on Win98. (see below) 2. Users: Is it just me, or would other people wish to change a user's role, without the *requirement* of also changing the password in acl_users folder?. 2.1. I click on the users name, highlight a role, press (or click) "change", I always get: "Password and confirmation must be specified". I don't want to change the user's password, I just want to change the user's role. What's the answer? 3. Living under Windows: I installed 2.1.2, ran through the tutorials, created some cool things, then went back to my "real" work for a week. In that time I installed some new software (including Opera and ZoneAlarm that deal with communication). Then Zope is broke. I can get the initial screen, but when I click on Manage, the server falls over and dies with a *real* long message string starting: ERROR(200) ZServer uncaptured python exception, .....ending with File "C:\Program Files\Zope212\ZServer\medusa\logger.py", line 65, in maybe_fl ush self.file.flush() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor 3.1. I "solved" this by installing 2.1.6 in a different directory. 3.2. I have no idea what to do without re-installing. 3.3. I would like to retrieve the information and site I placed in the old version. 4. Etiquette: I search in this list, in ZOPE.ORG, ZopeNewbie, Squishdot, and other general searches, spending many hours trying to find the answers to these. Am I searching the correct places? I am receptive to corrections in my message etiquette. I.E. is this too long? Should I create separate messages? 5. After learning about Zope at the recent Python conference, I decided that it is what I want to learn to jump into the 'web application' world. I'm having trouble finding the answers I need, and filtering all the 'stuff' I don't understand (yet) from the mailing list. I comment Richard Moon & Neil Burnett for their tutorial and documentation ideas. I have two suggestions for assisting people get more targeting information. One would be a thought out product, and the other, just a collection of submitted articles. 5.A. Product: "Targeted" discussions. Each user should be able to specify any or all from different category of messages. Categories can be added in a specific format to a message, or selected from a web page. (I have additional ideas about people with permissions to suggest or change submitted categories, auto-select categories, etc., but maybe I'll put that in a Product someday) 5.A.1. Example category types: OS, about (installing, setup, integrating, using, managing), question difficulty, or user experience level (1-5), Zope area (Zserver, Zclasses, SQL, PTK, Doc, Python Methods, etc, etc), and maybe ONLY one or two others. This way a ZOPE.ORG member can easily change or see the mailing list messages they get. 5.A.2. Then you get ONLY the INITIAL messages that you might be interested in. In order to follow the message you must reply to it. That way you ignore the messages you wish to ignore. (That's what I call an intuitive interface). If you wish to follow the message, reply to it. A message body isn't necessary. The return address won't be zope(a)zope.org, but something that will keep the messages together, sort of a 'mini' mailing list. 5.A.3. This sounds like a great project / product for Zope. Help me with my next phase of financing for my company, and I'll help write (or at least design) it! 5.B. I plan on creating a 'travelogue' of my Zope learning experience and encourage others to do the same. If these can be found easily, they will be a great help to Zope newbies. This would help me. I want to know how to do Z, or add X to my page, not what tool Y does and what it's options are. Show me how to build a house, not how to use a saw and a hammer. I will start mine as soon as I get some financing out of the way. TankYouBerryMuch <Details: > <Zope version= 2.1.6> <Experience with> Web servers, mailing lists, Linux, C++, Perl: Nil Java: Nil+1 Zope: rank beginner Python, HTML, SQL: Low Database & user interface design, teaching database design, the PICK database: Very high </Experience with> <Platform> Win98, IE5 (until I get time to learn Linux) </Platform> </Details> --Jerry McRae, CEO, usd1.com, Vancouver USA

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Spell checking in ZOPE
by Ken Kinder 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed Netscape doesn't have a spell checker in its textarea tag. ;) What do you guys do? -- Ken Kinder 303.381.7631

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Warning: Newbie - sorting in <dtml-in
by Marco Mariani 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

How do I sort a "lines" property in dtml-in? I have the following: <dtml-in "myfolder.mylist"> <tr> <td> <dtml-var sequence-item> </td> </tr> </dtml-in> I'd like the items to be sorted alphabetically. Thank you.

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Another "Zope in the Media" link
by Spicklemire, Jerry 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

http://www.vnunet.com/Features/601940

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Re: [Zope] ftp: get -R
by Marco Mariani 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:25:42AM -0600, Ken Kinder wrote: > Recursive FTP is something your client should worry about, not the > server. Not according to ncftp: The get command lets you retrieve entire directory trees, too. Although it may not work with some remote systems, you can try ``get -R'' with a directory to download the directory and its con- tents.

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CVS version of Zope and Squishdot
by Vitaly Osipov 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

Hello, I am not sure if this should go to zope-dev list, but I am rather a newbie in Zope and Python, and maybe just do not see something what is very obvious for Zope gurus :) This is what happened: after I fetched a CVS version of Zope, I noticed that Squishdot object became broken (it works on 2.1.6) with message: Squishdot Import Traceback Traceback (innermost last): File "/zope/lib/python/OFS/Application.py", line 387, in import_products product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly) File "/zope1/lib/python/Products/Squishdot/__init__.py", line 128, in ? import Squishdot, Squishfile File "/zope1/lib/python/Products/Squishdot/Squishdot.py", line 131, in ? from SearchIndex.TextIndex import TextIndex File "/zope/lib/python/SearchIndex/TextIndex.py", line 217, in ? from Lexicon import Lexicon, query, stop_word_dict ImportError: cannot import name query and (funny) there are really no "query" defs in Lexicon.py, only "query_hook" (so it is not a problem of Suishdot, but of SearchIndex)... Isn't it a bug in new SearchIndex or I just have to study some big thick Python book? :))) Vitaly.

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the zope-announce mailing list and the Zope.org site. It is published each Tuesday before noon(ish). Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Announcements * imeme.net is offering an exceptional, low-end Zope hosting package. Not only do you get Zope (with some nice Products), but they throw in email (supported by the also exceptional WorldPilot package, or any IMAP client) and a mailing list (managed by MailMan), lagniappe. Try free for two weeks. http://www.zope.org/Members/mindlace/imeme * ZopeBrasil has a new address. http://www.zopebrasil.cjb.net/ * Alexandre Ratti has translated the last two ZWN issues into French, and has posted them on the fledgling Zope-France site. Additional translations should appear here, as time permits. Thanks, Alexandre! http://www.zope-france.org/ressources/azh/ * James Orbin <jorbin33(a)hotmail.com> would like to set up (or would like to participate in) a Zope users group for Ohio. If you are interested, please write James, or see: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-March/000137.html New Products * Software Product: ListMate Table Generator, by "heiko.stoermer" "ListMate is a ZClass based product that allows zope users to easily define, create and administer table structures. Use it for intranet or internet presentation of all kinds of tabular data, such as delivery services, hardware lists, ip-adresses, contacts, addresses, ... It contains a complete administrative toolset so that handling and maintenance are very easy." http://www.zope.org/Members/heiko.stoermer/ListMate Updates * Software Product: GenericUserFolder (GUF), by Stuart Bishop GUF has been revved up to 1.2.2. This is strictly a bug-fix release, and deals with all reported bugs. GUF is a tool for rolling your own UserFolder (the object which authenticates users of a Zope server). http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/GenericUserFolder * Software Product: LDAP authentication adapter product, by "rossl" Version 0.98.3 has been released. This release includes changes proposed by LDAPUserFolder users, and is being called "non-urgent". If you intend to upgrade, please read the product page carefully. This product makes it possible to authenticate Zope users using an external LDAP database. http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter * Software Product: Wide String support for ZPublisher, by "htrd" The wstring package has been updated to v0.2. This package is actually a set of patches to Zope to make it support wide strings. This update works with Zope 2.1.6. http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring/ Zope.org items * How-To: Postmortem Debugging In Zope, by Chris McDonough This How-To provides a twist on Michel Pelletier's The Debugger Is Your Friend document. Using the postmortem feature of the pdb, you can examine the state of your server at the point where the last exception occurred. This can be very handy when you don't know why an exception is being thrown. http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/pm-debug * Tip: Zope and regular content via ProxyPass, by "bfordham" This tip describes how to serve the root of a site from a Zope server, but serve specific portions of the site via Apache. http://www.zope.org/Members/bfordham/docs/zope_and_others * News Item: New Zope.org feature: Author feedback, by "MikeP" Now you can send feedback to the author of any content on Zope.org. There is a link to this feature at the bottom of each appropriate page. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/feeback_news -- Mike Pelletier.

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Re: [Zope] string or list?
by Tres Seaver 11 Apr '00

11 Apr '00

Curtis Maloney <curtis(a)umd.com.au> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm having a small problem (duh! :) > > In my page, a person might select a number of items from a list. The > list is generated from an SQL query, and has unique IDs for each row. Fine. > Simple, right? > > Sure... And each row has a radiobutton input called 'done'. When the > user hits submit, if they've pressed any of the radiobuttons i will get either > a 'done' string (one selected) or a 'done' list (multiple selected). > > Problem is.. how do i tell which? Is it possible with DTML, as i try > to avoid using external methods for something so trivial. Use ZPublisher's marshalling features to get the values auto-converted to a list. See: http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes for more zen. Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)digicool.com tseaver(a)palladion.com

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