[Zope-dev] Error Value: name 'portal_types' is not defined

[Stan Baptista]

Hi all,

In the ZMI of a plone site, I get the following error
when accessing the 'Elements' tab of the
portal_metadata tool:

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Error Type: NameError
Error Value: name 'portal_types' is not defined
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I have read that this message occurs when you do not
access the portal tool from within a CMF site.  But
isn't a plone site also a CMF site?  If this is
incorrect, how does one go about accessing the CMF
site or interface or whatever?

The error log produces the following and any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Stan

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Exception traceback
Time 2003/04/14 14:51:06.500 GMT-10 
User Name (User Id) admin (admin) 
Request URL
http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata/elementPoliciesForm

Exception Type NameError 
Exception Value name 'portal_types' is not defined 

Traceback (innermost last): 

Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 98, in publish 
Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply 
Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 39, in call_object 
Module Shared.DC.Scripts.Bindings, line 252, in
__call__ 
Module Shared.DC.Scripts.Bindings, line 283, in
_bindAndExec 
Module App.special_dtml, line 174, in _exec 
Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Let, line 76, in render 
Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Let, line 75, in render 
Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Util, line 201, in eval
__traceback_info__: portal_types 
Module <string>, line 0, in ? 
NameError: name 'portal_types' is not defined 

Display traceback as text

REQUEST
form

cookies
tree-s 'eJzTiFZ3hANXW/VYHU0ALj4EkA' 
__ac_name 'sbaptista' 

lazy items
SESSION <bound method
SessionDataManager.getSessionData of
<SessionDataManager instance at 01B0A440>> 

other
BASEPATH1 '' 
AcceptLanguage
<Products.Localizer.Accept.AcceptLanguage instance at
01D82F3C> 
a_ 3 
BASE3
'http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata/elementPoliciesForm'

BASE2 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata' 
BASE1 'http://127.0.0.1:8080' 
traverse_subpath [] 
element 'Subject' 
URL1 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata' 
SERVER_URL 'http://127.0.0.1:8080' 
USER_PREF_LANGUAGES
<Products.Localizer.Accept.AcceptLanguage instance at
01D82F3C> 
AUTHENTICATED_USER admin 
TraversalRequestNameStack [] 
AUTHENTICATION_PATH '' 
AcceptCharset <Products.Localizer.Accept.AcceptCharset
instance at 01D8372C> 
management_page_charset 'iso-8859-1' 
URL2 'http://127.0.0.1:8080' 
PUBLISHED <DTMLFile instance at 01614C60> 
URL
'http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata/elementPoliciesForm'

n_ 6 
URL0
http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata/elementPoliciesForm

URL1 http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata 
URL2 http://127.0.0.1:8080 
BASE0 http://127.0.0.1:8080 
BASE1 http://127.0.0.1:8080 
BASE2 http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata 
BASE3
http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata/elementPoliciesForm


environ
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 'gzip, deflate' 
channel.creation_time 1050367825 
SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.1' 
SERVER_PORT '8080' 
PATH_INFO '/portal_metadata/elementPoliciesForm' 
HTTP_HOST '127.0.0.1:8080' 
REQUEST_METHOD 'GET' 
PATH_TRANSLATED
'\\portal_metadata\\elementPoliciesForm' 
HTTP_COOKIE '__ac_name="sbaptista";
tree-s="eJzTiFZ3hANXW/VYHU0ALj4EkA"' 
SCRIPT_NAME '' 
SERVER_SOFTWARE 'Zope/(Zope 2.6.1 (binary release,
python 2.1, win32-x86), python 2.1.3, win32)
ZServer/1.1b1' 
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 'en-us' 
HTTP_ACCEPT 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
application/x-shockwave-flash, */*' 
REMOTE_ADDR '127.0.0.1' 
HTTP_REFERER
'http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal_metadata/manage_editActionsForm'

SERVER_NAME '20JLH11' 
GATEWAY_INTERFACE 'CGI/1.1' 
HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;
Windows NT 4.0)' 
CONNECTION_TYPE 'Keep-Alive' 


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