[Zope3-Users] 4 questions from a newcomer

[Christophe Combelles]

Hello,

I'm currently spending all my time to learn zope3, and while searching some doc, 
I have gathered some useful links in the following wiki page :
http://ccomb.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=Zope3
(curr in french, but I will rewrite the text in english soon)
Please feel free to add other useful links if you have some.


Now I have 4 questions :
(I've just swithed from 3.2.1 to 3.3.0b2, with python 2.4.4c0 on debian Sid.)

1) TALES root variable
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In a tales expression, where has the "root" context variable gone? In zope2, we 
could use "path:root/path/to/object" or "path:/path/to/object", but it doesn't 
work with Zope 3. How can we access some object with an absolute path?


2) utf-8 error in i18nfile
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Why do I always get an error when I try to add some utf-8 text into an i18nfile? 
I just add an i18nfile in the ZMI, then I chose a name and I set the contentType 
to "text/plain;charset=utf-8". If I enter some text with accents like "éàôî", I 
get a system error which says : UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode 
byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128).
I don't get any error with a simple File object.


3) "order" attribute in browser:menuItem directive:
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I want to add a new view tab in the ZMI to be able to edit object attributes of 
some objects. So I'm adding a new menuItem in the zmi_views menu via ZCML with:
<browser:menuItem
     action="properties.html"
     for=".mymodule.IMyClass"
     title="properties"
     menu="zmi_views"
     permission="zope.ManageContent"
     order="2" />
(MyClass is just a derived Folder with custom attributes)
The problem is: the new tab always appear in the first place. I would like to 
put it just after the "content" tab, not before. The "order" directive does not 
work for that. How can I reorder the tabs so that my new tab appears in the 2nd 
position?

4) workflow:
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Where is zope.app.workflow?



thanks,
Christophe Combelles