Lena, Before I answer your questions, can I ask you a favour? Please don't send HTML formatted mail to the list. Some people on the list use mailers that don't take too well to it. Thanks in advance. Now on to your questions. The boring product is an example that you can use to build upon. That said it should be a fully operational (but boring ;)) product. You need to put the files you talk about into a directory under your zope directory: <zopedir>/lib/python/Products/Boring. Create this and then put the files in there Then you'll have to restart Zope to get it to recognize them. Onto zexp's. There are notionally two types of zexp files: 1. Exported ZClass Products 2. Exported normal parts of a Zope site. If the zexp's are type 1 then they can only be imported into the /Control_Panel/Products folder. type 2 can be imported almost anywhere. The message you are getting is indicative of a type 1 being imported outside of the Control_Panel. HTH Phil phil.harris@zope.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: IDEA WS To: zope@zope.org Sent: 13 May 2000 14:41 Subject: [Zope] Product integration - please help! Hi everybody! I am a beginner with products. I am trying to integrate the Boring sample product into Zope. There are 5 source (.py and .dtml) files. Could anybody explain me how to integrate it into Zope?? Also, where could I find out about troubleshooting for importing products? When I try to import a .ZEXP file I constantly get this "The object MyProduct does not support this operation" Hope to hear from you.... Lena

IDEA WS writes:

Hi everybody!

I am a beginner with products. I am trying to integrate the Boring sample product into Zope. There are 5 source (.py and .dtml) files. Could anybody explain me how to integrate it into Zope??

They all go in a folder which either is created by un-taring it from your Zope directory: prompt$> tar -zxvf Boring.tar.gz or just create a Folder called 'Boring' in the 'Products' folder (which is in ../MyZopedirectory/lib/python/) and put everything in there.

Also, where could I find out about troubleshooting for importing products? When I try to import a .ZEXP file I constantly get this "The object MyProduct does not support this operation"

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