[Zope] Plone Newbie Seeks Help

[Andy McKay]

> How should I be creating a list of Plone Folders? And have I created them
in
> the correct place?

Plone uses page templates, not DTML. If you are comfortable with DTML then
the standard CMF uses DTML (btw your code wont work anyway).

The concept of the CMF and Plone is that you create content through the user
interface of the CMF, not the ZMI. If you create folders and objects this
way in Plone, the navigation is done for you.

> Will I be able to install Plone on either of these hosts,
> or are there other free hosts that I could use?

You would have to ask them, I currently know of no free host that uses
Plone.

I would ask if Plone is something you really need, perhaps standard Zope
will be enough for you?
--
  Andy McKay
  www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Clayton" <jc_snappy@hotmail.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:14 AM
Subject: [Zope] Plone Newbie Seeks Help


> Hi,
>
> I am a Plone/Zope Newbie and have some questions that I hope someone out
> there will be able to help me with.
>
> 1. I have created a new tabs on my site as per the instructions at
> http://plone.org/documentation/CustomizingPlone but when I select it, the
> tab isn't displayed in the selected colour in the same way that the
Welcome
> page is for instance. I can see from the page source that my
> new page does not use the selected class, but I don't know how get it to
do
> this.
>
> 2. Another new tab (which incidently is displayed correctly and was
created
> in the same way) is for teams (I'm developing a web site for my sons youth
> football club), and I have created the following Folder
> structure;
>
> Root Folder
>   safc  (CMF Site which I think was created as a Plone site)
>     teams  (Plone Folder)
>       u9  (Plone Folder)
>       u10 (Plone Folder)
>
> I have a DTML Method called navigation in /Root Folder/safc containing
>
> <ul>
> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('Folder')">
>    <li>
>     <a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a>
>    </li>
> </dtml-in>
> </ul>
>
> as per the ZopeZoo example in the ZopeBook.
>
> My index_html (DTML Method) in /Root Folder/safc/teams is
>
> <dtml-var standard_html_header>
> <h2><dtml-var title_or_id> <dtml-var document_title></h2>
> <p>
> This is the <dtml-var document_id> Document
> in the <dtml-var title_and_id> Folder.
> </p>
>
> <dtml-var navigation>
>
> <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
>
> If I visit the teams folder I get an undefined error type with a value of
>
> portal_url not found in 'portal_url', at line 7, column 1
>
> I have tried changing my navigation object to list 'Plone Folder' but this
> doesn't make any difference to the failure.
>
> How should I be creating a list of Plone Folders? And have I created them
in
> the correct place?
>
> 4. I was intending to use a free Zope host (ie
> http://www.nipltd.net/Free or http://www.freezope.org/) but they do not
have
> Plone installed. Will I be able to install Plone on either of these hosts,
> or are there other free hosts that I could use?
>
> Many Thanks, John.
>
>
>
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