Maurits van Rees wrote:

Damon Butler, on 2009-09-03:

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Hi,

We just recently upgraded from various installations of Zope 2.7/2.9 to Zope 2.10. The page template feature "Expand macros when editing" is causing us major headaches. It is checked on by default, and as a result, the instant we wish to view the source code of any ZPT, it has been mangled into "expanded" form before we have a chance to do anything to it.

THIS IS BAD!

How can we turn this feature off globally? Right now, it is flatly impossible for us to edit most of our ZPTs because the instant we even look at them they are mangled. We can't even uncheck the option without saving the mangled version.

It's Catch-22 of the worst sort. Please help!

I created a fresh Zope 2.10.9 instance. This option is not checked by default. But when you check it and save the form it remains checked for that template.

Try appending ?expand:int=0 to the url. That does the trick for me.

Thanks for the reply, Maurits. However, your URL trick makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. The ZPT code has already been "expanded" even when we avoid the ZMI and access the ZPT by putting the URL to the ZPT object -- with your query parameter -- into our browser. We are currently using Zope 2.10.6. Has this problem been fixed with Zope 2.10.9? I simply cannot believe that there is NO WAY to turn this option off. How silly is it that it appears to be literally impossible to view the original source code for a ZPT?! --Damon

Andreas Jung, on 2009-09-04:

On 04.09.09 16:37, Damon Butler wrote:

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Thanks for the reply, Maurits. However, your URL trick makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. The ZPT code has already been "expanded" even when we avoid the ZMI and access the ZPT by putting the URL to the ZPT object -- with your query parameter -- into our browser.

We are currently using Zope 2.10.6. Has this problem been fixed with Zope 2.10.9?

Hm, my trick works in 2.10.9, but I see that in Zope 2.10.6 it has no effect, like you say. And using expand macros in 2.10.6 indeed has deadly results...

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I simply cannot believe that there is NO WAY to turn this option off. How silly is it that it appears to be literally impossible to view the original source code for a ZPT?!

Bugs that are not reported in the bugtracker can not be fixed :-)

Looks like this *was* reported earlier and already fixed in Zope 2.10.7. :-) The changelog says: Launchpad #262313: respect the Expand macros when editing flag when editing a page template through the ZMI So Daymon: please switch to 2.10.7 or later. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "This is your day, don't let them take it away." [Barlow Girl]