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How to use a variable in a <dtml-with > statement
by Lucas Hofman 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Stimulated by the quick reply on my previous question the next: Situation is an object tree like this main-\ \- 01 \- 02 \- 03 \- 04 >From a method in main I would like to refer to one of its subdirectories dependend on the value of a variable. I can't find the right syntax for the <dtml-with > statement. Thanks for helping me out. -- Lucas Hofman

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RE: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access
by Michel Pelletier 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Wilson [mailto:wilson@visi.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 12:47 PM > To: Michel Pelletier > Cc: Zope listserv > Subject: RE: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access > > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Michel Pelletier wrote: > > > > What I ended up doing is to set the permissions on my factory > > > so that 'Use > > > factories' is mapped to 'Add News Articles' (my ZClass). That > > > seemed to > > > work. Is this a bad solution? > > > > Nope, keep in mind that whomever can add news articles can use *any* > > factory. > > I thought that the permission mapping I did applied only to that > particular factory. You're saying that it's global? If so, then my > solution is not the best. Nope you're right, sorry. > BTW, I'm looking all around, but I can't find the screen to set proxy > roles. DTML Methods and Documents have a 'proxy' tab. By 'factory' I didn't think you were talking about a Factory, but a method that does a factoryish type thing. -Michel

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How can I improve error messages?
by Gustin Kiffney 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

OK, I've been hammered for the past couple of days because I was witless enough to use 'client' and 'id' as field names in SQL methods. I should have known better, I suppose, but that's the point of being a newbie - you DON'T know better, and really, you can't. Here's the super-uninformative error message I was getting: Error: TypeError: keyword parameter redefined SQL: Could not render the query template! And the HTML source indicated only that the problem was with my sql method - which I knew, because I'd been testing it over and over again, making unhelpful changes, hoping the magic cave would open and this ridiculous query would run. I grepped through the ZOPE source and apparently the phrase 'keyword parameter redefined' is emitted by Python, not Zope. Looking now through the Zope Quick Reference Guide there appear to be many names I can't use, which is OK, but a more robust system would tell me more about what went wrong. I guess this is a rap against Python more than Zope, but could these error messages possibly be extended to say something like ERROR: TypeError: 'client' keyword parameter redefined Or maybe could Zope trap this kind of error rather than letting Python handle it, which really doesn't generate extremely lucid error messages as a rule anyway? That would have saved the drywall in my office which has many head-shaped dents in it right now.

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RE: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access
by Michel Pelletier 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Wilson [mailto:wilson@visi.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 12:38 PM > To: Michel Pelletier > Cc: Zope listserv > Subject: RE: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access > > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Michel Pelletier wrote: > > > Give your factory method a 'proxy role' of manager. This > way, someone > > with non-manager privledges can do things like add instances only if > > they call your method the way you want them to. > > What I ended up doing is to set the permissions on my factory > so that 'Use > factories' is mapped to 'Add News Articles' (my ZClass). That > seemed to > work. Is this a bad solution? Nope, keep in mind that whomever can add news articles can use *any* factory. -Michel

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newbie question: Adding DTML Document in a 'subdirectory'
by Lucas Hofman 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Can anyone tell me how to (in DTML) create a document in any other location as the script containing the manage_addDTMLDocument statement? i.e. manage_addDTMLDocument('id','title','contents') generates a document named id on the same level as the method containing the statement. However, I would like to have it 2 levels down in the 'tree'. Thanks for any suggestions, Lucas Hofman -- PGS Seres tel: +47 67514059 PO Box 354 fax: +47 67526506 N-1324 Lysaker Norway

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RE: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access
by Michel Pelletier 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Give your factory method a 'proxy role' of manager. This way, someone with non-manager privledges can do things like add instances only if they call your method the way you want them to. -Michel > -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Wilson [mailto:wilson@visi.com] > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 9:12 PM > To: Zope listserv > Subject: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access > > > Hi everyone, > > I've got a certain role assigned to people who I want to be > able to create > an instance of a ZClass. I don't want them to have access to the > management screen however. I'm having trouble figuring out what > combination of permissions will do it. Does anyone have a suggestion? > Currently I have a link that points to the 'NewsArticle_factory' for > creating instances of my News ZClass. I'm not even sure if that's the > proper way to do it. I do know that everything works > perfectly if you have > the Manager role. > > -Tim > > -- > Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: > Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ > wilson(a)visi.com | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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Acquisition acting wierd
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

We have the following folder structure /-| |-standard_html_header | |-all_about/- | | | |-standard_html_header | | |-foods/----- | |-cheese http://zope:8080/foods/all_about/cheese or http://zope:8080/all_about/foods/cheese should acquire standard_html_header from all_about, not from the root folder. But instead the stand_html_header from the top level is displayed. What's wrong here? -- Itamar S.T. itamars(a)ibm.net

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Re: [Zope] Acquisition acting wierd
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

Rik Hoekstra wrote: > This is an acquisition particularity that bites us all at one time of > another. It is about acquisition acquiring an object and its context: > > The aquisition tree in the case of > http://zope:8080/foods/all_about/cheese: > > *cheese > *(ac_context root) all_about -> first standard_html_header encountered > is that of all_about. root s_h_h is overridden > *(ac_context root) foods In my case I still get the root s_h_h (nice acronym), not the all_about one. Maybe because cheese ia a Food object, not a dtml-method of foods. So my problem is in fact with http://zope:8080/foods/all_about/cheese/index_html that takes the root s_h_h, not the all_about one. What's the acquisition tree in this case? And is there anything I can do? -- Itamar S.T. itamars(a)ibm.net

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RE: [Zope] access root folder from dtml
by Michel Pelletier 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey V Khavryutchenko [mailto:akhavr@compchem.kiev.ua] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 11:01 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] access root folder from dtml > > > Hi! > > How can I get root folder object in dtml code? <dtml-with "PARENTS[-1]"> ... </dtml-with> allways pushes the root object onto the dtml namespace stack. -Michel

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Re: access root folder from dtml
by Andrey V Khavryutchenko 11 Jan '00

11 Jan '00

>>>>> "AVK" == Andrey V Khavryutchenko writes: AVK> Hi! How can I get root folder object in dtml code? Sorry, could have figured this earlier myself. <dtml-var "PARENTS[-1]"> gives the root folder object -- SY, Andrey V Khavryutchenko http://www.kbi.kiev.ua/~akhavr Software & SPI Engineer Visit my site Shick's Law: There is no problem a good miracle can't solve.

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