[Zope] Can't change title of a common instance property sheet

2000-08-18 Thread Jeff Sasmor

I suppose this is some sort of lack in the Zope management UI, but
maybe someone else knows how to do this:

If you create a ZClass property sheet you can pick an ID and a title.

But you don't seem to be able to EDIT the title of the property
sheet ever again.

Is there some magic property sheet property name or
is there just no way to edit the title from the management 
interface?

The other bizzare thing is that you can export a property sheet,
but there seems no obvious way to import one anywhere.
Anyone have a clue on this?  What's it there for?

TIA


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[Zope] ZCatalog Question

2000-08-15 Thread Jeff Sasmor

I have a product that has three CatalogAware Zclasses.  They
are indexed by the catalog correctly, but when I look at the
catalog's status tab, the number of objects for each index are
identical, even though the ZClasses themselves don't all have the same
properties.

Intuitively, this seems wrong. Or maybe my intuition is wrong.
It "makes more sense" to have differing number of objects
based on how many of each type of ZClass instance was indexed
and what the properties of each one was.

Anyone have any enlightenment (or is that Zen...) ?

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[Zope] Can ZClass products use structured text?

2000-08-07 Thread Jeff Sasmor

Zopeistas -

I am trying to use the new help system to add help
for a product (finally) newly-adapted to Zope 2.2.

When I imported the ZClass (.zexp) file, I noticed a
nice Help folder, and I can see how to add help topics
and how that works very nicely thankx.

However, it does not seem possible to create a stx
document from the web interface, if only to be able 
to have help pages that more or less look similarly-
formatted to the ones that are part of Zope already. 

(In desperation I just tried using structured text in the
help file with no success didn't really expect it to.)

I suppose that one could use a kludge and have the 
topic just open an dtml doc with fmt=structured_text.  

It would be nice to just have a .stx file as a normal product 
does (you can see this by looking in the help files for 
'regular' Python products.

Perusing the source, I see in lib/Python/HelpSys/HelpTopic.py
a class STXTopic (line 264) that's a subclass of TextTopic, but 
I don't see a way to create one of these from the web.

Am I missing something zymosely obvious?

TIA,

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[Zope] Renderable ZClass and Zope 2.2

2000-07-26 Thread Jeff Sasmor

Hi-
I am trying to 'update' my EventFolder product to
Zope 2.2 but a  really wierd thing is going on:

When I try to create an instance (an EventFolder, which is
subclassed from Renderable and ObjectManager) I get an
error shown in the traceback below.

There EventFolder_add method in the ZClass creates a
catalog (Catalog) which does not seem to be accessable...

yet, why is the instance being renedered at all?  It appears
as if the instance is being rendered before the transaction
is committed and therefore there's no Catalog-- this I get. But
why is the instance being rendered at all?

Is there some incompatability with Renderable and 2.2?

Confusedly,

Jeff Sasmor
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Error Type: AttributeError
Error Value: Catalog

Traceback (innermost last):
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 222, in publish_module
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in 
zpublisher_exception_hook
(Object: RoleManager)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply
(Object: EventFolder_add)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object
(Object: EventFolder_add)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 167, in __call__
(Object: EventFolder_add)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in 
__call__
(Object: EventFolder_add)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Let.py, line 147, in render
(Object: folder="EventFolder.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)")
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 146, in render
(Object: folder)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 337, in eval
(Object: 
manage_addProduct['ZCatalog'].manage_addZCatalog(this(),'Catalog','EventCatalog' ))
(Info: this)
  File , line 0, in ?
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py, line 112, in 
manage_addZCatalog
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/Products/Renderable/Renderable.py, line 17, in 
__str__
(Object: Renderable)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 167, in __call__
(Object: render)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in 
__call__
(Object: render)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 146, in render
(Object: ZopeTime)
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Let.py, line 147, in render
(Object: tdate="'%s/%s/1' % (tyear,tmonth) "
  this_month="'%s/%s' % (tyear,tmonth) "
  ddate="_.DateTime(tdate)")
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Let.py, line 147, in render
(Object: smeth="dateSearch.absolute_url()")
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 337, in eval
(Object: 
renderMonth(ddate,smeth,bodyFgColor,bodyBgColor,headingFgColor,headingBgColor, 
'showyear' , moderated))
(Info: smeth)
  File , line 0, in ?
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 
270, in __call__
(Object: renderMonth)
(Info: ((DateTime('2000/07/01'), 
'http://www.ptang.com:8080/test/asdasd/dateSearch', '#00', '#ff',
'#ff', '#00', 'showyear', 'on'), {}, None))
  File /usr/local/Zope220/lib/python/Products/EventFolder/Extensions/rendercal.py, 
line 97, in renderMonth
(Object: Renderable)
AttributeError: (see above)


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[Zope] Anyone for a Zope bonding experience at OSS con next week?

2000-07-10 Thread Jeff Sasmor

This is a repeat of a previous post - the OSS con is next week.
About 6 people have responded before, you don't need to
respond again if you have done so already.

---

Hi Zopistas,

Anyone else in this list going to the OReilly Open Source SW
convention July 17-20?.  Anyone interested in having an 
informal Zopista.party.dinner.beerfest.splunge (or whatever...) 
one night during the con or perhaps Sunday nite July 16?  

If enough people are interested I'll try to set something up.

Might be fun to hang out and share experiences &stuff;

Since this is Off-Topic- probably you should respond via email to:

Jeff Sasmor
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I'll post a summary to this list if enough people respond.  

PS: People from Digital Creations are welcome too!  



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[Zope] FYI - poss. reindex_object alleged 'bug' workaround

2000-07-07 Thread Jeff Sasmor

Zopers and PyCoders-

I was having a problem with ZCatalog-- namely, editing
the properties of a CatalogAware item (in a custom form) 
after creation resulted in no change to the indexed value in
the Catalog.

I know about reindex_object and was using that-- so it
wasn't just that I was leaving it out!  Hmmm.

I read the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list archives on zope.nipltd.com
(what a great resource, thanks!!!) and found some mentions that
this was broken in 2.1.6, which is what I am using.

ANYWAY, I found that 



solved the problem immediately (well, for me, anyway). 
Just thought I would pass this on so it would be archived for 
others with this problem (or at least something to try
in a moment of desperation!).

Why does this work?  I have some guesses about some of the 
PyCode in CatalogAwarenesss.py but I'm still too much of a
Python newbie to make any comments.....


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[Zope] Problem with > 1 ZCatalog search on same page

2000-06-28 Thread Jeff Sasmor

Hi Zopistas-

I have problem that I hope that there's an answer to.  Perhaps this has been
covered on this list already, but I couldn't find it by searching the NIP archives
and 800+ results for "ZCatalog" was mind-numbing.

I have two ZCatalog searches on the same page (in the same DTML method). Each
has different fields so they have different numbers of results displayed in two 
tables.  

This works just fine.

What's wierd is that the 'batch_size' code interacts between the two-- if the size of 
the 
first table's  set of  results is < batch size and the size of the second table's 
results
is > batch size then the second table has a "next N results" link.  If I click this 
then 
the second table dutifully displays the next data set.  BUT- the first table just 
displays the
LAST item it had displayed before.

>From a quick glance at the way that ZCatalog works, it seems as if this behaviour 
>could
be correct; and the batching code in the ZC can't handle more than one set of results 
associated with a single DTML method. But I am by no means sure of my interpretation
of the python code here.


Anyone have any insights?

TIA,

Jeff Sasmor
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PS. For those Zopistas who are MontyPythonistas: I get to see "Eric Idle exploits 
Monty Python" tonite (weds 6/28) at Carnegie Hall in NewYawkCity.  They promise
lumberjacks, etc.  This goes on tour to some cities in the US this summer. Bought
these tickets months ago so have the 4th Row Orchestra!
I hope this is as good as seeing Monty at NYC's Civic Center 
.  John Cleese
stepped on my foot whilst selling albatrosses (?) at that one.  But I digress...



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[Zope] brain hurts regarding dynamic fcn args in Python

2000-06-19 Thread Jeff Sasmor

Hi- I guess I'm somewhere past a 'newbie' (after a few solid months)
and I'm developing a calendar-based (but not based on calendar tag)
'event-log' 'black-box app' for lack of a better term, for eventual relase
to Zope.org, if only as a helper for _new_ newbies.

I'm stuck on what I guess is a pythonish thing and my brain hurts.

Is there a (straightforward?) way to dynamically compose function
argument lists?  For example, in C, you can write"

f(arg1, arg2, (conditional expression)?(val for TRUE state):(val for FALSE state)).

Or  one can embed a fcn call within an argument list in order to supply a
needed function parameter.

In my case here in Zope, sometimes I have to search a ZCatalog
prior to displaying the results in a  looping construct.



  



Now if the 'moderated' property is active I want to add the keyword arg

reviewed='on'

to the arg list at the time that the searchResults method is invoked.
Since this invokation is in an expression it's certainly a python thing, but I can't 
find
any reference to this type of capability in any reference I have.  Did I miss 
something or
is there just no simple way to do this?

The only way I can see to do it is to wrap Catalog.searchResults() in an external 
method with
some ifs and elifs.


TIA.
Jeff Sasmor
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[Zope] OReilly Open Source conference

2000-06-08 Thread Jeff Sasmor

Hi Zopistas,

Anyone else in this list going to the OReilly Open Source SW
convention July 17-20?.  Anyone interested in having an 
informal Zopista.party.dinner.beerfest.splunge (or whatever...) 
one night during the con or perhaps Sunday nite July 16?  

If enough people are interested I'll try to set something up.

Might be fun to hang out and share experiences &stuff;

Since this is Off-Topic- probably you should respond via email to:

Jeff Sasmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


I'll post a summary to this list if enough people respond.  

PS: People from Digital Creations are welcome too!  


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