[Zope] Re:Event and Scheduler question

[Derek Basch]

Martijn,
Thanks, that was the critical piece of knowledge I was
missing. I can add Schedulers now. I need to learn
more about CMF too. The documentation for CMF seems
minimal too.
Thanks,
Derek Basch


--- Martijn Pieters <mj@zope.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:36:28AM -0700, Derek
> Basch wrote:
> > I have spent the last few days tyring to work with
> the
> > Event and Schedule Products from the CVS tree:
> > 
> > http://cvs.zope.org/Products/Scheduler/
> > http://cvs.zope.org/Products/Event/
> > 
> > I haven't had much luck finding any documentation
> or
> > examples. I can add Event objects ok but I get an
> > AttributeError when I try to add a Scheduler
> obect:
> > 
> > Error Type: AttributeError
> > Error Value: portal_events
> > 
> > Rather than wander aimlessly through the source I
> > thought I would ask, does anyone has experience
> with
> > these products? Feel like helping a newbie?
> 
> Sorry, I don't thin kthere is *any* documentation on
> these things. The
> Scheduler was designed for use in a CMF environment,
> and it expects the
> Events tool to be named 'portal_events'. Hence the
> attribute error; the
> scheduler tries to publish an event, and it is
> trying to get to the Events
> tool through that well-known name.
> 
> The code is somewhat anal in how you can change the
> Events tool name
> registered with the scheduler; the default ZMI add
> method for the scheduler
> doesn't accept an alternative. You *can* change it
> on the properties tab
> once the scheduler is created.
> 
> -- 
> Martijn Pieters
> | Software Engineer  mailto:mj@zope.com
> | Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com/
> | Creators of Zope   http://www.zope.org/
> ---------------------------------------------


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