That way they could get all the data instead of just most of the data.

That won't make any difference. If I get all data then I can keep what is needed and provide the option to delete what is not needed. It'll be great if I can get all the data exported to mysql database. Anyway thanks for the help. --Sukhwinder Singh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Platte" <plattem@inetnebr.com> To: "Sukhwinder Singh" <ssruprai@hotmail.com> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Exporting zodb data (Urgent)

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Sukhwinder Singh wrote:

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These files get data using something like:

for employee in container.employees print employee.name

These files/scripts/methods are in their respective folders. For example, a script which displays employee data is in employees folder and script which exports student data is in students folder.

But when I try to use this method of using for each * in container.students or container.employees outside these folders (in the root folder) error is displayed like container is not defined etc. Is container something built in or their custom class?

Sounds like a Python Script. Pg. 445 of the Zope Bible:

When you create a python-based script, Zope automatically creates default values for 4 of the 5 available bound variables.

- context. ... - container. This is the actual container (usually a Zope folder) where the script resides. This is useful for calling other methods stored in the same folder. The default value is "container". - script. ... - namespace. ... - subpath. ...

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There is one more problem client is on the other part of the globe. My boss cannot lose this project now. So I must do it.

Ouch! What part are you in? When do you sleep? heh.. if you do, that is.

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While I am trying to figure out how to export data they are using the old system at this time. So they are updating the database.

...been there, done that. Stressful.

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I want to provide them a way to export complete data by just on click.

That way they could get all the data instead of just most of the data.

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If that is not possible then I want to provide them an external method or python script which they install in root folder and when accessed exports data to mysql database.

If there is no other solution than learning zope then tell me what are the things I should learn about only to export data. I have downloaded zope guide and developer guide and admin guide. What other resource I should check? Time is problem for me.

The debug page in the control panel can tell you what's being utilized. You can set it up to record activity for a few minutes when the school people are working on the data, then figure out from that (long) list of objects which ones are getting the most attention.

I'd watch that a few times to figure out *what* things need to be understood. Seems to me that identifying or finding the useful data is the big problem. Once located, exporting should be more easily solved.

I like the Zope Bible because it's based on Zope 2.5 which is fairly recent. Most of the other books are far too old to be useful. It's more reference-oriented; the others are tutorials and not so good for detective work.

Also, IRC can be instructive but I have never been able to successfully blend IRC into my workstyle.

DTML Methods are deliberately limited in their ability to perform calculations and other programmatic stuff. The idea is to move the business logic to other objects (scripts, etc.) and use DTML for presentation. Perhaps you could safely ignore the DTML objects for now, while looking for the real data.

-- ----------^^-- '' Matthew D. McCain Platte There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. --James Thurber