[Zope-PTK] Preferences problem

[Bill Anderson]

geek@geekme.org wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
> 
> > At 17:59 Uhr -0800 22.02.2000, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > >Given a freshly installed demo portal, attempting to enter
> > >"Preferences" from the nav bar gets:
> > >
> > >   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.
> This user obviously won't have the properties that Preferences
> sets.  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?


Data point:
I've seen this under those exact circumstances.

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