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WebDAV and Word 2000
by Guy Davis 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

I am trying to make a case for the use of Zope as our project documentation server (among other things) to management here. This is not easy as their instinctive reaction is to say 'Buy something from Microsoft'. In some instances, we will be storing Word documents on the Zope (2.12) server. I tried opening them with Word 2000, but I was only able to open them as Read-only. Is there someway to allow editing of Word documents using WebDAV. Please let me know how people are using Word with Zope. Thanks. -- Guy Davis mailto:davis@arc.ab.ca (403) 210-5334 Alberta Research Council

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Squishdot via WAP
by Brendon Grunewald (70South) 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

Dear Zopers, I've been looking to get my squishdot based news site WAP enabled for the past week. It finally works, thanks to help from Duncan Booth, who is writing a howto so that life become easier for us all. Thanks Duncan. The code to enable the viewing of the squishdot headlines is available via a reply to my message on the squishdot site, <a href="http://squishdot.org/948313901/index_html">Click Here</a> There are plenty of improvements and further additions to be made but the basics work. Have fun, Brendon -- Brendon Grunewald http://www.70south.com mailto:brendon@70south.com ---

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Anyone use Confera? I tried to add Confera...
by Paul Hewitt 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

...I unpacked the tarball in the Zope dir, and restarted Zope, and sure enough the Confera product shows up. I was even able to add it to a folder, and successfully posted a test message. But when I tried to "compose reply" to the test, I get the following error: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: regs Troubleshooting Suggestions The URL may be incorrect. The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect. A resource that this resource relies on may be encountering an error. For more detailed information about the error, please refer to the HTML source for this page. If the error persists please contact the site maintainer. Thank you for your patience. Any ideas? If this helps: I am running Zope-2.1.2 (compiled from src) on RH linux 6.1, and all of the above was done as "superuser". The only non-out-of-the-box thing I've done is to run the ZServer on port 80. Thanks!

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Re: [Zope] Help - ZODB Couldn't load state
by Michael Hamilton 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

I've managed to answer my own queries. On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Michael Hamilton wrote: > Is it possible to use ZODB to access a non Zope filestore from an external > method that is being called from Zope? I'm getting an error when I try to > do so? Yes, it is possible. One thing to consider is that ZODB with the default FileStorage manager only seems to allow one process to have the DB open for write access. So it more than one process needs to write you would have to look at Digital Creations pay-for product ZEO or perhaps roll you own server. Be careful to correctly set up the picked classes in Zope/lib/python/Shared, e.g. Zope/lib/python/Shared/MyPackage/__init__.py Zope/lib/python/Shared/MyPackage/MyPersistantClass1.py Zope/lib/python/Shared/MyPackage/MyPersistantClass2.py And to help testing outside of Zope, in the source that retrieves the objects put something like: import sys sys.path.append("/blah/blah/Zope/lib/python") If you classes arn't able to be found by Zope, you will get errors such as these: > In the browser window: > Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. > > Error Type: AttributeError > Error Value: User > > with the tail of the stack trace reading: > > File /usr/local/Python/local/lib/ServiceQuery.py, line 36, in __init__ > File /usr/local/Python/local/lib/ObjectStore.py, line 47, in getObject > File /usr/local/Zope/Zope-2.1.2-src/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 396, in setstate > File /usr/local/Zope/Zope-2.1.2-src/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 193, in _persistent_load > (Info: ('\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\030', ('__main__', 'User'))) > File /usr/local/Zope/Zope-2.1.2-src/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 153, in __getitem__ > > And the stderr of the server emits: > > 2000-01-21T09:58:11 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for '\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000' > --- Michael Hamilton ( http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/michael.hamilton )

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zcatalog and zsql/zmysqlda question
by elijah wright 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

can zcatalog be made to search teh data in a mysql database being accessed through zmysqlda??? or do i have to write my own methods to do this? suggestions? thanks in advance! elijah

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RE: [Zope] ZCatalog: How to use a subattribute as index?
by Hung Jung Lu 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

>From: Michel Pelletier <michel(a)digicool.com> >Programatically. The 'Find' machinery will not find the sub-sub-attr if >the sub-attr is not traversable. > >Create an index called 'raw'. > ><dtml-with "mySQLMethod"> > <dtml-call "Catalog.index_object(template, absolute_url())"> ></dtml-with> > >or something like that... Where can I find out more about the index_object? Is your "Catalog" a default attribute of all ZObjects, or is your "Catalog" the instance of ZCatalog? I tried what you said but it does not work. I still cannot find the right object. I guess the next thing to try is subclassing Z SQL Method? Hung Jung ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Zope Futures discussion: your input
by Brian Lloyd 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

Hi all, I will be giving a talk at the Zope Track at IPC8 on the future directions of Zope. The format will be about half me babbling about our broad future plans and half Q & A. I would like to make sure that I cover the things that the zopista community cares about in the first part, so I'm putting out a call for you to chime in and let me know what topics are important to you. I can't promise to cover them all, but I do hope to be able to address the ones that are most common among your responses. Please cc the list on your feedback! Thanks! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Re: ZopePacks: A Proposal for a new Zope Product...
by Butch Landingin 22 Jan '00

22 Jan '00

--- Jim Fulton <jim(a)digicool.com> wrote: > Butch Landingin wrote: > > <snip> > Here's one comment that should provide a good place to start. > There is already a mechanism for creating product distributions > for products created through the web. When you develop a product > with ZClasses and you want to distribute it, you can use a > web interface to create a tar ball that can be installed just like > any other Zope product. There is no need to fool around with export > files and no need to have an inconsistent installation mechanisms. <snip> > This mechanism is far from perfect and I look forward to > suggestions and implementation for enhancements. We also > have some specific ideas for enhancing this mechanism. > > This seems to be one of those topics of "Zope Zen" that > is not widely known. (Very few people at DC seem to be > aware of it.) This is a bit ironic, since this feature > has been *documented* for well over a year. :( > OMG, *NOW* I remember!!!! It's been a while, but I remember walking through the tutorial that produced exactly this... I maybe wrong (its been a while since I did the tutorial) but IIRC, one of the downsides of this process was that it produced a "closed box" product and doesn't leave you a way to see or modify those components included in the package. Also, IIRC, it doesn't have checks for ZClass/Product dependencies. That said, I think we have 2 alternatives: 1. We could enhance this distribution tab so that it accomplishes the objectives set forth for the ZopePackManager product: a. Be able to specify the ZClasses, instance data (e.g. Folders) & ZProducts(?) that are to be included in the application b. Be able to create products that recreate the included ZClasses & instance data in their original format (i.e. open-box format) so that users can further tailor the default behavior of the distributed application to each site's needs... c. Zope Product installation should be able to do some dependency checking so that installation is as error-free as possible. d. Zope Products created this way should be able to share ZClasses between different distributions and load them as necessary (and only when necessary) -- this will make each distribution smaller (because you only include those ZClasses/instance data you supply) & also make the Zope Products namespace less cluttered. e. Be able to enter and retrieve additional info (e.g. product categories, product description) about each product so that users have an ability to pick and choose intelligently which applications they might wish to install... 2. Continue development of the "ZopePack" manager product but incorporate the current "distribution tab" concepts in building the product -- i.e. aside from making the distribution/installation of ZClass based applications easier(my main objective) -- also include the code to make it easy to build a ZopePack (e.g. checking dependencies and automatically determining the dependency data that needs to be included in the ZopePack "meta-file") Also, its nice to know that there's already code inside the Zope machinery that could build ".tar.gz" files -- we can probably automate not just the installation of Zope Products very easy, but also the converse process of "building" a distribution a "one-or-two-click, platform-independent" process as well... Since I don't have a clue as to how much work the first approach will entail, I'd like to get people's opinions... In the end, both these approaches solve the problem equally well -- the only question is: which one looks easier to do? Regards, Butch __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

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data.fs flushing
by Gregor 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

OK, here's my situation. I'm running a windows 98 machine (i.e., not very stable) with multiple windows users. Therefore, the current user occasionally gets logged out, or the machine itself crashes, killing the zope process. The server does generally get restarted, so uptime is not a problem with this setup. Since the database appears to only be saved to disk during a shutdown or a pack, this basically means that at irregular (but frequent) times out of my control, the database can be easily lost. The person logging out of the current account does not have (nor should have) the access to Zope's management interface needed to do a shutdown on the server or a pack of the database. Since I have set up the ability for some remote users to do some content management, and they might do this at literally any time without my knowledge, this is a problem. Even the logs do not help; the logs apparently disappear in such a situation (not tested fully), so I have no way of knowing even THAT the users have changed something, much less what. What I basically am wondering is if there is a way to force Zope to flush the database to disk at periodic intervals, whether by packing the database (undo is not as important to me as not having unknown amounts of data disappear entirely into the bit bucket when there is a problem) or by forcing a flush in some other way I found this little snippet in ApplicationManager.py, but I'm not sure what to do with it exactly, or even if this is the best place to start twiddling around with the source: def manage_shutdown(self): """Shut down the application""" for db in Globals.opened: db.close() sys.exit(0) def manage_pack(self, days=0, REQUEST=None): """Pack the database""" t=time.time()-days*86400 db=self._p_jar.db() t=db.pack(t) if REQUEST is not None: REQUEST['RESPONSE'].redirect( REQUEST['URL1']+'/manage_workspace') return t If I don't resolve this issue, Zope won't be of much use to me (changing environments isn't very likely right now), and I'll have to go back to a static web site. Do you think running Zope as a Windows Service via the registry would help? (At least, it might help with the "logging out current user" aspect. It won't help with the system crashes.) - Gregor vorlon#iglou.com

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Re: [Zope] Zope as a content manager for static web sites
by Hung Jung Lu 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

I would be very much interested in the solution, too. If other people are not clear what the problem is, I'll restate it here: (1) You have a website "A" hosted in some web hosting service that only allows FTP. Your web hosting service does not run Zope. (2) You know Zope and can run Zope on your own machine "B". (3) You would like to design things on your own machine "B", and once they are ready and looking good, you would like to move your web content, in form of static web objects (HTML file, images), to your website "A". (Notice that you don't want to move stuff like DTML methods, external methods, etc. You want to move the "rendered" HTML pages!) This is effectively "mirroring". Your site "A" is a mirror of your Zope site "B". --------------------------------------------------------- Right now, I guess one can always do things in Zope, and then use some "offline browser" type of software to grab the entire site or subfolder, and then FTP the result up to your other website. For offline browsers, you can go to http://www.download.com/ and type in the keywords "offline browser". You have many choices. I know what these things do, but I have not played with any of them, so I don't know which one is good. Once you have grabbed what you want from your Zope site, you can then FTP it onto your site "A". ----------------------------------------------------------- That being said, I am still interested in any product that would make this process easier. It takes some time, but should not be hard to write a product that would check and update things automatically through FTP... this product should automatically add/delete files/folders on your site "A" and avoid FTPing files that have not been modified. If done well, all you may need to do is clicking on a button, and your website "A" automatically gets updated. :) Yeah, I know, easier said than done. :) ----------------------------------------------------------- "bob crosley" <bob-(a)hilgraeve.com> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/?start=21555 >We're using Zope to build a web based app, but we also have a site >that just serves static pages. I'd love to use Zope as a content >management tool for the static site, but can't install Zope on that >server. > >Is there a Zope add-on that would let me build the site in Zope, and >then publish a static web site from that. Have Zope build the HTML >pages from the DTML methods, and write them to disk, so that I can >then FTP those to the server? > >Any directions you could point me would be greatly appreciated. > >Bob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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