[Zope] Installing new objects

[Kevin Dangoor]

Products that use ZClasses need to be imported from Control_Panel/Products
(The error you got is normal when you try to import a ZClass product from
some place other than the control panel.)

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander S Coventry" <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 11:07 AM
Subject: [Zope] Installing new objects


>
> Hi.  What does it mean when a newly installed object fails to show up in
> the "Available Objects" list of the Zope Contents page?  I have been
> trying to install Ken Manheimer's Tracker.  I put the TrackerBase object
> in the lib/python/Products, copied Tracker.zexp to the import directory,
> made a symlink from Extensions/TrackerMethods.py to
> lib/python/Products/TrackerBase/TrackerMethods.py,
> and restarted zope.  The TrackerBase object does not show up in the
> "Available Objects" list, and attempting to import Tracker.zexp gives
> the error "The object Tracker does not support this operation" along
> with an uninformative-looking backtrace.  On the other hand, the
> TrackerBase did turn up when I did a "Find."