[Zope-PTK] Preferences problem

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:52:17 -0500 (EST) 
geek  <geek@geekme.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
>> At 17:59 Uhr -0800 22.02.2000, J C Lawrence wrote: 

>>> Error Type: AttributeError 
>>> Error Value: email

>> This happens because the portal creation wizard does not ask you
>> for the eMail address of the first portal manager. You need to go
>> to the management interface and edit this user there.

> I'm having trouble reproducing this.  In fact, I'm not certain
> this is the problem.  I agree that the wizard should ask for the
> email address (I've just made the change locally) but I have a
> feeling that what's happened is you've tried to use the
> 'Preferences' option while logged in as a user from the root
> acl_users user folder, such as the superuser.  

Bingo!  This was the problem.  I'd previously set the email address
via the management interface and hadn't noticed that I wasn't logged 
in as a local user.

> You need to log in as a Portal member (such as the manager account
> you created in the Portal wizard) for it to work.  Can you verify
> for me that this isn't (or is) what happened?

That is what happened.

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