[Zope] Creating a Product

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>jonathanbrisbin@excite.com wrote:
>> 
>> I'm starting to create a Product in Zope, and I quickly realized I don't
>> know what the heck I'm doing :-)  Can someone export, etc... a product
>> they've created so I can see the Zope methods, propertysheets, etc... that
>> you have to create to get the silly thing working right :-)
>> 
>> Maybe someone needs to do a tutorial on actually creating Products?? ;-)
>
.I assume your talking about through the web products, you can also write
>Products in Python that function identically.  Python products tend to
>be more advanced or interface external resources.
>
>If you go to the beta site http://www.zope.org:18200/ you can download
>the KM|News product, which was designed through the web using ZClasses.
>
>Products do not necesarily require ZClasses, however.  Simple products
>can be made that work just with the standard Zope objects (ZClasses let
>you define new types of objects).  Simple Products are documented in the
>Content Managers Guide.
>
>http://www.zope.org:18200/Documentation/Guides/ZCMG/ZCMG-HTML/ZCMG.11.2.html
>
>
>-Michel

Sorry for the intrusion,
I also am having problems with this. I have followed the ZCMG (Page 31)
and have no luck.  The ZCMG has a property of 'id' set in the example.
I have tried changing this to other strings and still get the same error.
Can you help?


  Zope Error
Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.

Error Type: KeyError
Error Value: id



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Traceback (innermost last):
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 214,
in publish_module
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 179,
in publish
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 201, in
zpublisher_exception_hook
    (Object: RoleManager)
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 165,
in publish
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160,
in mapply
    (Object: Builder)
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 102,
in call_object
    (Object: Builder)
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py, line 145, in
__call__
    (Object: Builder)
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py,
line 502, in __call__
    (Object: Builder)
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_With.py, line
133, in render
    (Object: manage_clone(Home,REQUEST['id'],REQUEST))
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line
321, in eval
    (Object: manage_clone(Home,REQUEST['id'],REQUEST))
  File <string>, line 0, in ?
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line
156, in careful_getitem
  File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\HTTPRequest.py, line
758, in __getitem__
KeyError: (see above)


This is on a windoze98 box running Zope 2.0
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