[Zope] Using ReportLab with Zope

2000-05-20 Thread Richard Folwell
To sound out what, if anything, other people are doing in this area: I am interested in using ReportLab with Zope, to provide an improved printed version of web-published documents. What I want to do is fairly straightforward, to create a PDF file with: - a title/cover page with control

RE: [Zope] Proposal for mail-in to Zope

2000-06-01 Thread Richard Folwell
Some alternatives we considered and didn't go for: - write something in Zope to listen for SMTP connections, effectively large portions of an MTA. This would be cool but painful. Providing a basic SMTP server is not at all difficult to do in Python. I did a cut-down one once

RE: [Zope] Am I getting the idea correctly?

2000-07-08 Thread Richard Folwell
You can use whatever GUI type tools you currently use to create your web pages to use with Zope. This will not make the best use of Zope, but it will work. Zope makes available an FTP interface to its internal database structure, so it is possible to use it more or less exactly as you would

[Zope] Creating graphs with Zope (under NT)

2000-07-14 Thread Richard Folwell
How are the Zope website statistics graphs created? I need to create simple graphs (pie charts and line graphs) from data held in an ODBC database, using Zope under NT (unfortunately). I looked at gnuplot, and found ways to produce really impressive complex sophisticated graphs, but nothing

RE: [Zope] Importing exchange rates

2000-07-18 Thread Richard Folwell
It is also possible to set up an ODBC connection to Excel. Depending on your background, this might be simpler to set up. See the Excel help for the fine details. (No VB programming at all :-). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim

RE: [Zope] Anyone using Zope on a RAQ3?

2000-08-02 Thread Richard Folwell
Has anyone tried running Zope on a Cobalt RaQ3? The reason I ask is that a UK company is now offering dedicated RaQ3's for 29 pounds/month (64Mb RAM, 8Gb disc), and I wondered if it would make a good Zope platform or not? Well I _was going to say, "One thing that was not clear from their

RE: [Zope] Ivalid Integer from Zope

2000-08-13 Thread Richard Folwell
How about dtml-var bcs null=0? (Just a guess, but I would expect a zero length string to be an invalid integer value). I am using the Znolk Input Wizzard with postgresql tables. One of the variables in the table is an integer and can have null values. However, in the update and insert

RE: [Zope] Microsoft SQL Server Access under Linux?

2000-08-23 Thread Richard Folwell
Check out this ODBC-ODBC bridge: http://linuxpr.com/releases/430.html I have not tried it, but it does seem to do what you want. "The ODBC-ODBC Bridge is a package of libraries which provide applications on Linux with access to ODBC data sources on remote machines. Examples of using the

RE: [Zope] dtml-in loop to capture records

2000-10-20 Thread Richard Folwell
Okay, this works fine, in MOST of my forms, but I have other forms where this doesnt work at all and I get errors saying that the ITEM is a bad request. I dont get it, what am I missing here that this works some places and in other places with almost identical syntax, it falls over. I came

RE: [Zope] ZSQLMethods

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Folwell
I've 2 databases. I want to do a 'join' with 2 tables, both in a different database. Is it possible to retrieve data of both tables with a ZSQLMethod and then do a programatically join? What's the easiest python way? If you are using ODBC then the EasySoft SQL Engine might solve your