Hi Rogerio
1)Folders names are directly related to string fields
in a MySQL database which use spaces between words (eg
New York), but folders names don't use spaces (eg
NewYork). How can I skip spaces from database fields to
make them refer to these folders (eg New York --
NewYork)?
I
Hi Marco,
From: Marco Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: Re: [Zope] File referencing and LocalFS
foldername = string.join(colname, '')
using a "blank" ('') between each string, in other words, with no
delimiter.
Maybe you meant
foldername =
The DTML User Guide has an "Appendix A" that shows lot's of options, but no
examples. Anyhow, see:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML-HTML/DTML.18.html
You can use these like so:
dtml-var ZopeTime fmt=="%Y/%m/%d"
dtml-var ZopeTime fmt=="AMPM"
Oops! Change those "==" to just single "=".
Too much Python on the brain . . .
-Original Message-----
From: Spicklemire, Jerry
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 12:15 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Date time format
The DTML User Gu
Ramalho wrote:
"""
- Containment: Search the object, then its container, then the
container's container, and so on. Ignore objects not in this chain.
- Context: Search the objects in precisely the reverse of the order in
which they were mentioned, so "A.B.C.D" is always searched in the order
ate, other "B" objects in other
chains could define the color scheme for the all the objects ("pages") in
the parent folder.
That's context.
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Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:23 PM
To: Spicklemire, Jerry
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Francois wrote:
Hi, I d like to upload on a Local File System. I would like to use a
form, choose a file and i d like that Zope upload the file on the
LocalFS. I ve met some troubles, could you help me?
See Jonathan Farr's LocalFS product, which now (since v.0.8.1) allows
file uploads to the
William wrote:
inserts to a variable, say x1, into a postgresql table.
However, there is an additional variable, x2 that would
have to be only entered once and would be the same for
every record for which a different x1 is entered.
it seems the dtml-in should do this.
Assign the
Greetings Zope Fans,
There is a value included in "REQUEST" called HTTP_ACCEPT.
Is there a way within Zope to reset this value?
The default seems to be "*/*", but our sysadmin says Zope
would get along better if we can change it to include the
alias that Zope has been assigned by our Proxy
Hi Zope Fans,
Has anyone seen a case where acquisition works, but only
in the topmost folder? The site I'm working on shows no
problem on a test server, but upon moving to a
production server any URL pointing to a subfolder, or a
document contained in a subfolder returns an error
(below).
Cary wrote:
come to the realization that many applications boil
down to workflow management.
The ZPatterns project the Phil Eby and Ty Sarna are running
is intended to lay the groundwork for just what you want.
They call it "SWARM", and if memory serves, the "W" is for
"Workflow".
Darin asked:
Is it possible to access an ODBC data source through Zope running under
Linux?
I'm getting ready to test such a solution this week. First, we'll try :
ODBC Socket Server http://odbc.linuxave.net/
and the accompanying Python Client. This will require some coding, and
Hi Folks,
Just to follow up on the plan to test ODBC Socket Server. We now have a
working copy resident on a NT test system here, which enables us to ship
queries across the LAN from Unix / Linux land to hit against Windows Native
(ODBC) data stores, and get back datasets as XML. So far, it
Tim asked:
I want to only provide the first item of each list in this
SELECT:
You can use Python "slice" syntax, where the first item of a sequence (index
position 0), is indicated like: listname[0]
try:
dtml-in valid_prj
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('val_prj_seq_item', _['sequence-item'][0])"
Actually, there are some extraneous "" in the prior post. Here's a corrected
version:
dtml-in valid_prj
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('val_prj_seq_item', _['sequence-item'][0])"
OPTION value="dtml-val_prj_seq_item;"dtml-var
val_prj_seq_item/OPTION
/dtml-in
I also should have mentioned that this
Henk Schets wonders:
- how easy and reliably can I manage my virtual hosts (about 8 sites
right now) ? Very important.
The SiteAccess product contributed by Evan Simpson is a popular solution.
http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess2
- how stable is Zope regarding to
Richard Moon says:
Zope offers the potential to be the perfect development environment with
tons of really good solutions off the shelf - these can be customised if
they have to, we can drop down to Python if we really need to. Perfect.
Unfortunately its been difficult to get discussions like
-Original Message-
From: Richard Moon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:43 AM
To: Spicklemire, Jerry; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison
Perhaps there should be someone producing an 'approved' list of
products
and pretend that Zope can do this today!
http://standardbrains.editthispage.com/
This is where we're headed with DAV, XML / DOM, Zope Studio, etc.
Sorry the demo only works (today) with MS IE v. 5+. If you can get
to a desktop with this installed, it is such a trip to swipe some
Hi Zope Fans,
I'm about searched out trying to find any discussion about calling a normal
"continue" statement, as in Python, from DTML. Any ideas?
I just want to short circuit a dtml-in loop for one pass, and then finish
the rest of the loop, based on a parameter.
Thanks,
Jerry S.
. . . has a opening posted on their Web Site for a C/C++ programmer with
Zope / Python experience?
http://www-3.ibm.com/employment/us/empl/jofK23137.html
Email Software Engineer (CA-K23137)
Category: Software
Location: CA
Division: Other Divisions
Work as a part of a small team
"how can I manage it to cut a string.
for example:
a string property (testtext) with 500 words.
but only want to give out 20 characters of tis text."
Python sequence slicing syntax can be done with DTML, like so:
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('first_20_char', '_['some_long"string'][:20])"
dtml-var
Hi Brian,
Regarding:
I'd be very interested to hear any ideas you folks have
on ways to help "make simple things simple" for development
and to allow people to deal with complexity only as they
begin to need it...
One of the features the stands when a newbies starts poking
around at
Scott Butchill wonders if:
"there is a simpler way to do this."
Not much simpler, but how about:
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('user_select', ['walkon', 'fullhouse'])"
dtml-with bid_records
dtml-in user_select
dtml-if "_.str(REQUEST.form['selection']) == _['sequence-item']"
dtml-with
Daniel asked:
"Can anyone explain what the advantages are of using
an RDBMS for Zope object storage over the standard file
system storage?"
The folks I know that have asked for that feature have
stated their concerns as being:
Keeping everything in a single large file is risky,
Oliver asked:
I've been looking at that new book's draft on the Zope website and I'm
wondering what chapter 7 is talking about. Where in Zope can I find a
"restricted Python method" or a "restricted Perl method"? I've never
seen those. Does anyone know, please?
Keep in mind that the Zope
Hi Zope Fans,
I ran into an odd quirk today, and I'm hoping someone has
an insight to share. There is a simple text string stored
as a DTML Method, with ID = "set_table_0", e.g.:
'border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"'
When set_table_0 is in the Zope root folder, it isn't
OK, now I'm really confused. I stumbled on a way to make
the DTML Method work, that is, the one that wasn't being
found before, via Acquisition. All I have to do is forget
to add the terminating ';' in :
table dtml-set_table_0;
so that it looks like so:
table
Steve wrote:
I'm guessing the the problem is that
dtml-xxx; does an implicit "html_quote" format
on whatever expression you provide.. so
table dtml-set_table_0;
should produce:
table border=quot;0quot; cellpadding=quot;0quot;
cellspacing=quot;0quot;
Which the browser doesn't
Hi Martijn, and Zope Fans,
I'm using ZFormulator and having problems with permissions
on Zope v.2. The sign-on dialog pops-up when a user
attempts to edit a form, but the correct name and password
are rejected. Has anyone found a little detail that needs
tweking to get past this one?
Steve asked:
What version of ZFormulator are you running (and in what version of
Zope?) I just tried ZFormulator-0.2 with Zope-2.2.2 and it seemed to
work OK. Maybe it doesn't work with older zopes?
Oops, I should know better by now, than to ask for help without including
the details.
Hi Again,
It turns out that the problems I was seeing are related to the Proxy Layers
that are in place to keep our IntraNet safe. ZFormulator doesn't work at all
when I bypass the Proxy entirely, only works partially when the Proxy is
invited to play, and only works fully when the directories
Steve says:
Found it:
line 312: Form.py should be:
__roles__ = ('Manager',)
Thanks Steve!
Steve's motto is, "We don't need no stinkin' Docs!".
BTW, we disagree about this . . .
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Jason pondered:
How do I get a TinyTable to display it's contents?
All I find in the docs is !--in# tablename-- and that does not
seem to work for me, unles I am lacking a tag?
Try it like this:
dtml-in tablename
dtml-var fieldname1 dtml-var fieldname2br
/dtml-in
where tablename is the
Morten says:
If this sounds interesting, send me an email.=)
Is this one OK?
I'm developing an Outlook/WorldPilot replacement which is much more
modular in design. It will be released under the GPL. When and where
I don't know yet. It stores messages in 'pure' ZODB format (that is,
Pete asked:
How well does Zope integrate applications/cgi's written in ASP,
Cold Fusion, Perl, etc...? As we've got a number of things we'd
prefer to keep as is, and run alongside Zope.
and added:
Is it possible? I'm thinking that with Apache and mod_rewrite
it would be doable (using
Daniel says:
We have a very large site and many of Users bookmark pages.
This can cause several problems especially if the site layout
changes, security changes at different levels and a user
bookmarks a result pages that depends on previous page(s)
submissions.
Yes, it's easy to
Hello Linguistas,
Shorter is better. In this light, my recommendation was "mod",
short for MODule, and / or MethOD, but it didn't get into the
Poll List.
We've pretty much settled on restricted/unrestricted here.
Also, I suggested "strict" as a shortened form of "reSTRICTed".
Perhaps to
Irene says:
I get so frustrated with DTML, I want to scream.
Please don't tell me to buy the Zope book,
DTML should be more intuitive.
DTML maybe the heart of Zope,
but it's also it's achilles heel.
You're right about the confusion, frustration, nor are you alone.
Still, DTML isn't
Aitor asked:
My problem is this :
dtml-let foo=3D" ' blaublau : " fdsaf " df ' "
/dtml-let
It doesn't work 'cause I can't escape the doble quotes inside the string=
I'm trying to eval.
Any solution???
If I recall correctly, the work around I've used is to store the text,
including
Slim Says:
I am having a problem when I try to run a python application on a Sun
server:
We had some problems like this too. If memory serves, an incompatibility
between older versions (Oracle 7.x) of the Oracle Networking package, and
the new version (Oracle 8) of the database "backend" was
Mike asked:
I have a date string (ie dd/mm/yy) which I'm drawing out of a database
(ODBC connection to Access) with a Z SQL method and I need to use that
data to set the initial condition of a set of 3 select items (ie day,
month and year). Is there a way to split this date (it'll come out
Mike said:
I tried what you recommended and got the following error:
Error Type: AttributeError
Error Value: __getslice__
The problem I think is that the variable is drawn from the database as
type
date (Microsoft Access 2k) and somehow is cast into a date type. Is there
a
way to
Outstanding!
Sometimes I wonder if ther rest of the Open Source world
has a glimmer of how FAST Zope is developing. let alone
commercial vendors.
Can't wait to dig in!
Congratulations to all,
Jerry S.
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Jason wonders:
Looking for an e-commerce tool to use for a Zope-based site for artists to
share, display and sell 'net art' and more. Also to allow sponsors to do
just that.
snip
1. What do you recommend for taking credit card purchases online with
Zope?
The Wampum Generator is available
Kyler said:
it'd be great if someone
would say something like "Oh, yeah, just set
'capitalize_everything' to 'off'..."
i can't tell you where to look, but as for "what"
to look for, try searching for:
string.capwords(
or, in dtml entity syntax:
dtml.capitalize-
good luck!
jerry s.
Jason asked:
Do you know is anyone _using_ Wampum :
a. For handling real transactions, or is it still in development stages ?
b. With Etailer's Zope kit?
This URL will have to be "reconstituted, but check out:
http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/commerce-archive.nsf/1201f301bbb3337c802
Hey Zope Folks,
Maybe I missed it, but did anyone else realize that
Zope's 2nd birthday snuck by without a party?!
Maybe the DC Gang are planning something based on
an official ship date of some specific version, but
anyhow, Happy Birthday, Zope!
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Hi Zope Fans,
Has anyone found a good way to delete a Database Connection that hangs Zope
at startup? The connection seems to be waiting "forever", and so there is no
access to the Zope interface, so of course I can't delete, or disable the
offending object.
If there were just a way to set it
Steve suggested:
You could remove the adaptor Product from Zope the Zope Products
folder and restart, the object will be broken, but deletable, then
restore the Product and restart Zope.
Good Idea! That's about as simple as this sort of
thing can get, I suspect.
Has anyone found a good
Darren wrote:
I am very new to the Zope idea. I like what Zope is trying
to do. But I am trying to set up an external SQL database
connection
While it would be ideal for one set of instructions to serve
every possible requirement, in reality it will be best for
you to provide as much
Steve wonders:
Is there anything like a Zope 'Best Practices' document or
Wiki? One that would encourage use of certain practices, DTML
idioms or products, and warn of practices, idioms or products
that are known to cause problems down the line or are slated
for extinction?
I ask
Jason mentioned :
The need to improve the manage interface has grown urgently
clear to me while using Zope myself, designing for all sorts
of community and collaborative Zope-based projects, demos for
a number of innocent bystanders, interested parties and
potential clients. Zope
Angie asked:
The problems is i'm not sure my dtml in order to control the loop
of choosing the correct sql in the right situation.
The following is my DTML:-
dtml-if "_["dtml-var custid"]==custid","_["dtml-var
custname"]==custname"
dtml-in sqlSearchcust1
/dtml-if
dtml-elif
Oops! What I meant to say was:
"The only /dtml-if tag you need is that final one."
(see prior post on this topic)
Later,
Jerry S.
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Gerald said:
I need to have source code readable on the filesystem
independent of a Zope server, so that I can do things like CVS
them, use any editor on them, grep them, etc. It seems that my
only choice is to write products in Python itself, instead of
using the web interface of Zope,
Nicolas said:
I am looking for two products: a professional workflow and a
electronic document management system, preferably in Zope or
opensource if not in Zope. These 2 applications should be able
to work together.
Some of this is now in the Portal Toolkit (PTK) soon to be re-named and
Hi Nicolas,
For you, when would such products be considered ready for production ?
The most important factor can be viewed from two perspectives,
neither precluding the other.
The ideal state arrives when complete documentation is available,
or at least one person on the deployment team
Hi Gerald,
http://www.zope.org/Members/sspickle/ZCVSMixin
Since this converts between CVS and Zope already, have you
thought about the possibility of exporting it directly onto
the filesystem?
Since CVS is file based, everything you export is stored as a file during
the CVS phase. One
This may be the link you were thinking of:
http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/corba_business_specifications
_av2.htm
with the Corba Workflow Specification available as a .PDF.
Thanks for the interesting URLs on workflow discussions.
Corba Ecommerce has very interesting and
Hi Nicolas,
Your last post mentioned:
I am looking for a workflow (WF) linked to a electronic document
management (EDM) system and a groupware email based
In addition to other links, you might want to check out ZopeGUM,
and ZUBBS,
http://www.zope.org/Members/morphex/ZopeGUM
Adrian asked:
Is there a database connector or similar for MS-SQL Server that
might run on non-windows Zopes?
Check out http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/SybaseDA , and
please let the list know how it goes. We all need to help each
other with these little puzzles.
Good luck,
Jerry S.
Hi Adrian
I tried this about 6 months ago. It seems that Micro$oft
changed that protocol that SQL7.0 uses, just enough to prevent
Sybase connectors from working. (I probably should have
mentioned 7.0 in the message... sorry)
Ouch! There are some other options, a few of which I've tried,
/lib/python1.5/poplib.py, line 146, in
_shortcmd
File /l01/Zope-2.2.1-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/poplib.py, line 125, in
_getresp
error_proto: (see above)
"Spicklemire, Jerry" wrote:
Hi David,
I'm looking at your Pop3 Client tool for Zope and have hit a snag.
Is there any documenta
There are a few things I'm trying to understand about the xmlc-like
Templates proposal. First :
"Using specialized webdesigners with Zope project has been one
of the biggest pains in Zope development; we have to take the
sometimes ugly code generated by the tools they use, usually
clean it up,
Paul Everitt wrote:
o Allow those presentation tools to work by having well-formed
markup (e.g. no separation into header and footer)
to which Chris Withers replied:
Hmmm... I wonder how refactoring, which _header and _footer were really
useful for, will happen now...
The most
Chris Withers writes:
A **page** is the result of applying presentation to data in the
object system. A page is a particular result of a URL when viewed
under certain conditions.
I'd like to add to this:
components used to make up 'page's should not be URL-visible.
Itai asked:
"I started reading about ZPatterns but I still can't get my head
around it... I'm wondering if I should try to learn it fast enough
for this project, or stick to what I already know. What in people's
experience is the typical learning curve for ZPatterns? How much am I
going
Hi Steve, and fellow ZPatterns Wannabees,
As to the sorts of things most of us need to keep track of that could tie
into a simple "ToDo" List, so far we've seen suggestions for an Address Book
and Deliverables. The first sounds kind of like a Contact List to me, or
maybe an Ownership or
Hi Name Hunters,
My problem with Zopelet is that it already has a meaning, at least to me.
Looking down the road, not nearly as far as one might imagine, let's see
where we may be heading. Think about minimal Zope instances running on Palm
Gizmos, Cell Phones, whatever, a sort of personal
Sorry for the duplicate post, forgot the subject. :)
Hi Name Hunters,
My problem with Zopelet is that it already has a meaning, at least to me.
Looking down the road, not nearly as far as one might imagine, let's see
where we may be heading. Think about minimal Zope instances running on Palm
Johann Loibl wonders:
What does the following line means?
href="dtml.url-mail_password_form;
how to work with '' ?
This means to substitue the value stored in the variable
"mail_password_form"
as an "absolute URL". It's known as "DTML Entity Syntax".
Check out:
Mike asked:
Can zope work with Java yet? If so, please point us in the right
direction.
Phil responded:
I'll recap. There is a piece of software under development called JPE.
This is supposedly going to be or even is a Jave-Python gateway in effect.
It should allow you to use Java
Kapil said:
looks like it will instantly become the most advanced open source database
out there. my current rankings of the general os rdbms in terms of
features
postgresql-interbase-mysql
Keep in mind that (even though) it is an effective "general os rdbms",
PostgreSQL was originally
Itai wrote:
My understanding was, though,
that TransWarp will replace ZPatterns as the best tool for object
model based development, which means that the idea of developing
ZPatterns code with a view for long term future reuse suddenly isn't
that attractive.
My inclination exactly. I
Arno said:
I am currently checking ZFormulator and could import the demo,
but was unable to add new input fields.
From a post by Steve Spicklemire to the Zope list, October, 27th, 2000:
"
line 312: Form.py should be:
__roles__ = ('Manager',)
"
This was quickly retrieved by
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