Re: [Zope] Simple ZODB Search and Edit
(Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:01:39AM +0200) Peppe Top wrote/schrieb/egrapse: I'm new to Zope and I'm reading through a few tutorials and the Zope book. I need to do a text string search on a ZODB and I need to know which objects contain the string. Example: I have a site running up, and I need to know where my mail is mentioned, so I can edit each object and update the mail. (I think using ZMI) Go to the Root Folder in the ZMI, click on the Find tab. Enter whatever data you have and click on Find. From the documentation I think that ZCatalog might do the trick, but I'm not sure it's the easier solution. Am I on the right path? I don't think so, but it largely depends on what you are really trying to do. Can you get me started? To get started please read: http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/ZopeStarter If you want to build your own application with Zope, you should build your own products that will hold the presentation and business logic. The instances of those products will be stored in the ZODB and those will contain the content of your application. As someone else already mentioned you can make your content searchable with very little work, by using a ZCatalog and a minimal amount of extra code in your products. I just need a fixed string search, returning the name (maybe the path too) of the object inside the ZODB, so I can later edit. Is ZMI the right tool to do simple editing? No. The ZMI is an administrative interface. It's not meant to build end user interfaces upon it. Also is ZCatalog already included in Zope, or do I need to install it? Sure it's in there. You can see it as ZCatalog from the ZMI Add menu in the upper right corner. Another thought: *If* you are trying to build a content management system, maybe you should consider starting out with one of the existing ones that run on Zope? Configuring / extending that to your needs? They usually come with full text search out of the box - and they already know how to handle all those little pitfalls you will encounter. Regards, Sascha ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Simple ZODB Search and Edit
Example: I have a site running up, and I need to know where my mail is mentioned, so I can edit each object and update the mail. (I think using ZMI) Go to the Root Folder in the ZMI, click on the Find tab. Enter whatever data you have and click on Find. Yeah, that works, but I need to search the SearchableText property, and the Find tool doesn't report all the results I need. However, you all have helped me a lot, and now I have a correctly working ZCatalog, searching the whole site, and returning the path of the objects :-) To get started please read: http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/ZopeStarter If you want to build your own application with Zope, you should build your own products that will hold the presentation and business logic. The instances of those products will be stored in the ZODB and those will contain the content of your application. As someone else already mentioned you can make your content searchable with very little work, by using a ZCatalog and a minimal amount of extra code in your products. I didn't know about the wiki, very useful. Is ZMI the right tool to do simple editing? No. The ZMI is an administrative interface. It's not meant to build end user interfaces upon it. OK, see below. Another thought: *If* you are trying to build a content management system, maybe you should consider starting out with one of the existing ones that run on Zope? Configuring / extending that to your needs? They usually come with full text search out of the box - and they already know how to handle all those little pitfalls you will encounter. You are dead right, I'm digging into Plone too, right now. Thanks Sascha, and all the list, you helped me big time. -- Peppe ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Simple ZODB Search and Edit
Hi all, I'm new to Zope and I'm reading through a few tutorials and the Zope book. I need to do a text string search on a ZODB and I need to know which objects contain the string. Example: I have a site running up, and I need to know where my mail is mentioned, so I can edit each object and update the mail. (I think using ZMI) From the documentation I think that ZCatalog might do the trick, but I'm not sure it's the easier solution. Am I on the right path? Can you get me started? I just need a fixed string search, returning the name (maybe the path too) of the object inside the ZODB, so I can later edit. Is ZMI the right tool to do simple editing? Also is ZCatalog already included in Zope, or do I need to install it? Thanks a lot for your time -- Peppe ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
