[Zope] Simple User Folder Setup

[David H]

Infor Gates wrote:

> Chris
>
> Thanks for your email. There is another person I wish to thank. 
> However, I lost his email contact by accident - his advice points me 
> to where to check for the errors.
>
> Let me Simple User Folder works.
>
> As I googled for some time on this, I noticed there are others who had 
> similar problems but the answer was not quite straight forward.   The 
> reason, my best guess, is most of us are "juniors" - slightly above a 
> beginner. As we journey to "higher" level Zope development, we tried 
> to grasp the concepts of the Products developed by people like you.
>
> For me, when I installed the SUF according to the README file, it was 
> straight forward. I test individual programs and it is working OK.  I 
> copy LITERALLY the needed  *.pys and *.sql from test directory to 
> content page of SUF instance.
>
> However, when I try through Zope TTW (e.g. ADD user), the system 
> produces the said error message.  "Juniors" like me wo uld expect the 
> SUF works the same as Zope User Folder. When it did not, I was lost.
>
> Thanks to the an advice from the earlier email, I learnt to hack 
> around the example I copied to the content page of SUF instance. It 
> was a simple error BUT I did not see it. The example call for addUser 
> but the program copied was named addUser.pys. Also missing inside the 
> example is  calling the addUser.sql.
> So when I change the name to addUser and added call to addUser.sql, it 
> work fine.
>
> In conclusion, I would say it was a miscommunication or mis-reading of 
> the README. It would be better the README file can improve this 
> aspect. Then I believe everyone would enjoy using the SUF.
>
>
>
>
> */Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>/* wrote:
>
>     Infor Gates wrote:
>     > I am having problems in setting up Simple User Folder.
>     > Error Message:
>     > Error Type: UnconfiguredException
>     > Error Value: Addition of users has not been configured
>     >
>     > I have googled around for an answer. However, there is very
>     little info on it.
>
>     Urm? That's a pretty damn clear error message if you ask me ;-)
>     Did you read the readme.txt in SUF?
>
>     > My Configuration: Zope2.8.4 / Windows XP Pro / Postgresql
>     > I have copied all (addUser.pys, addUser.sql, editUser.pys
>     editUser.sql, deleteUser.pys deleteUser.sql, getUserIds.pys,
>     getUserIds.sql, getUserDetails.pys, getUserDetails.sql) into the
>     /TEST/acl_users/Contents page as advised in README.
>
>     Does it say just blindly copy them?
>     Where did you copy them to?
>
>     Those files are primarilly for running theses tests. If you read the
>     python files in the tests folder you'll see how to use them.
>
>     In your case, you need to define a method called 'addUser' inside the
>     Contents tab of your SUF instance.
>
>     Read the readme.txt to find out what that method needs to take as
>     parameters and what it needs to do.
>
>     cheers,
>
>     Chris
>
>     -- 
>     Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting
>     - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
>
And SUF deserves enjoying.  Its simple, clean and to the point.  Thanks 
Chris.

David

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