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Basic Zope Documentation?
by The Dragon De Monsyne 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

I've been looking for some documentation of so very basic Zope features, and have been going nuts trying to find it. Basically I',m looking for info on things like objectValues(). _I_ know you use objectValuee to get the contents of a folder, but _where_ is there docs that say that? (and how you use it) Plus things like id, title, title_or_id (which are methods as I found out after much irritation, (I'd thought they were attrbutes)), and there are others I know (but I don't know what they are, since I can't find a list of them). Like I said _I_ know these things, but I'm putting together a community site for Authors and Artists, and _they_ won't, and if there isn't some good docs I can point 'em to I'll be getting emails asking 'how do I get the last changed date for my document', & 'How do I list stuff in a folder' a dozen times a day. (Yes, I've already looked at the online help, the User's Guides, and the ZDP site.) -The Dragon De Monsyne

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Building a cache on an object
by A.M. Kuchling 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

I'd like to construct an associative cache of information, which would basically be a dictionary. My first thought was to create a property that was a dictionary, and store values in the dictionary. Unfortunately, none of the allowable property types corresponds to a dictionary. Can I add a dictionary directly to an object such as a folder or DTML method? -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. -- Horace Walpole

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Re: [Zope] Dynamic SQL statement construct
by Anthony Baxter 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

>>> "Miller, John M." wrote > You might want to check out Anthony Baxter's data miner product at > http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/. Yeah, okay, it may be a 0.1 release, > but there's plenty of good stuff in there to give you some ideas. Yep - note that the path to dynamic SQL generation is a slippery one. You start off pretty simple, and eventually you're writing code to attempt to detect aggregates in the select clause to differentiate between where and having, and then things get _real_ ugly. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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.. but it works under linux
by fritz.heinrichmeyer＠fernuni-hagen.de 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

there must be something subtile which lets the pcgi-wrapper fail under freebsd and not under linux. I used the same source code. I rebooted to linux and zope worked as it should .. but installing e.g. postgres is painful there .... (at least from mandrake rpms, maybe i should switch do debian which is the most freebsd-ish linux version).

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creating one ZClass instance in the constructor of another
by Kevin Dangoor 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

Hi, Brian Hooper and I have been trying to figure out how to add ZClass instances via DTML... and I've finally figured out what I've been doing wrong... The couple of examples that were tried in the original messages below could be corrected by doing: <dtml-call "Control_Panel.Products.Guestbook.Guestbook_add(_.None, _)"> (Note: my code is actually a little different, because I'm working with different products and classes. YMMV) For me, the whole trouble was that the namespace wasn't set properly for the add method to run. An alternate syntax is: <dtml-call "manage_addProduct['Guestbook'].Guestbook_add(_.None, _)"> There is a side-effect here from the default add method that I didn't want: the default method will redirect to the management screen. So, I ended up just doing: <dtml-call "Control_Panel.Products.Guestbook.Guestbook.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['i d'], REQUEST)"> In fact, in my current situation, I am making a new ZClass subclass instance (KMYear is a subclass of KMArticleStore). In this scenario, I can just call: <dtml-call "KMYear.createInObjectManager(newID, REQUEST)"> After all of that, I believe that I will ultimately change my add method to behave the way I want, because I will be using it in conjunction with a Findable class. I just wanted to pass along all of the ways that this can work, for anyone else trying to instantiate ZClasses with DTML. Kevin In http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007133.html, Brian Hooper wrote: Brian Lloyd <Brian(a)digicool.com> wrote: > This is a little ugly, but it should work (untested). Let me know! > >  I tried this (or rather, something like it - sharp observers may have noticed that I screwed up the question a little; since GuestBook_add is a DTML Method, it should probably be called  after resetting the id in REQUEST to whatever I want the new object id to be):

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Re: [Zope] DA Roadmap
by Christopher Petrilli 29 Jul '99

29 Jul '99

> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > >> Gang, >> >> Below is the Database Adapter roadmap that I've just put up on the web site. >> It covers both where we are, how we measure where we are, and where we're >> going. Some of you might find the section dealing with the future of ODBC >> drivers interesting. >> >> Please let me know directly any feedback. > I've been just wondering, but it seems as the ZPyGreSQL DA is not > mentioned at all. Does this mean it is orphaned, or did I miss something? It isn't ours, so I can't speak for it. That's all there is to it. There's also two of them floating around out there. I'd like for *someone* to take up the mantle of the Postgres DA.... then they can tell me what the real story is. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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Re: [Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and Methods?
by Kevin Dangoor 29 Jul '99

29 Jul '99

-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Santaniello <someone(a)arbitrary.org> To: zope(a)zope.org <zope(a)zope.org> Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:30 PM Subject: [Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and Methods? >Is there some documented way of searching the contents of Zope Folders >and Documents? And if so, can one search within properties as well? And >if not, where would be the best place to start for implementing this? One of the big new things in Zope 2.0 is the ZCatalog. Zope 2.0 is still betaware, but you may want to take a look at it. There is a Find facility in 1.10.3, but it is nowhere near as fast and flexible as ZCatalog. If you are comfortable installing beta code, look in your Zope 2.0b1 installation in lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.txt for some docs on using the ZCatalog. You can find some information for searching in 1.10.3 here: http://zdp.zope.org/FAQ/api Kevin

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RE: [Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and Met hods?
by Michel Pelletier 29 Jul '99

29 Jul '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Santaniello [mailto:someone@arbitrary.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 4:22 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and > Methods? > > > Hi Everyone, > > I've just started working with Zope, and it seems I've had a > bit of bad > timing with the moving of the documentation and stuff on the new > web-site; I'm having trouble finding stuff. So my apologies if the > answers I'm looking for are right under my nose somewhere. ;-) > > Is there some documented way of searching the contents of Zope Folders > and Documents? And if so, can one search within properties as > well? And > if not, where would be the best place to start for implementing this? > Zope 2.0b has a notion of ZCatalog. A ZCatalog is an object that can store text and field indexes of Zope objects. You can, for example, ask a Catalog to text index the contents of all your DTML Documents, or to field index all the objects with the property 'favorite_color'. Then you can create search forms to call the catalog and get a list of objects which match your search criteria. It's really far more powerful than that, but that should get your started. -Michel > Many thanks, > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (To receive general Zope announcements, see: > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > For developer-specific issues, zope-dev(a)zope.org - > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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Novice Question: Text search of DTML Documents and Methods?
by Joseph Santaniello 29 Jul '99

29 Jul '99

Hi Everyone, I've just started working with Zope, and it seems I've had a bit of bad timing with the moving of the documentation and stuff on the new web-site; I'm having trouble finding stuff. So my apologies if the answers I'm looking for are right under my nose somewhere. ;-) Is there some documented way of searching the contents of Zope Folders and Documents? And if so, can one search within properties as well? And if not, where would be the best place to start for implementing this? Many thanks, Joe

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RE: [Zope] Error adding folder
by Michel Pelletier 29 Jul '99

29 Jul '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Grace [mailto:grace@laurel.humboldt.edu] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 3:46 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Error adding folder > > > Hi All. > > I tried to add a folder to the root level of my Zope > management screen and > got the following error: > > exceptions.IOError > what was the traceback? look at the HTML source code of the error page. -Michel > That's about all it said besides something to the effect of "Zope has > encountered an error...". Anyone seen this before? > > Ryan Grace > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (To receive general Zope announcements, see: > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > For developer-specific issues, zope-dev(a)zope.org - > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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